d'or en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /doɹ/ (General-American)
- /dɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
French, from de (“of”) + or (“gold”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable, postpositional) Of gold; golden.
‘I forget your coat of arms.’ ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’
1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:1617, William Camden, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries - description of coat of arms On a shield azure Apollo, the inventor of phisique, proper, with his head radiant, holdinge in his left hand a bowe, and his right hande an arrow d'or […]