emborder en · VERB
Etymology
From em- + border.
Meanings
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(archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
Among thick woven arborets and flours Emborder'd on each bank
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- (archaic, transitive) To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| imborder | alternative | lexicographic | |
| emborders | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| embordered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| embordered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| embordering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| imbordure | alternative | lexicographic |