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Bordure vs Ordure - What's the difference?

bordure | ordure |

As nouns the difference between bordure and ordure

is that bordure is (heraldiccharge) a contrasting border around a shield while ordure is excrement, dung.

bordure

English

(wikipedia bordure)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A contrasting border around a shield.

    • ordure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • excrement, dung
  • * 1988 ,
    • The bowels and bladder collapsed, sheets and mattress had to be burnt at the bottom of the back garden. The body, having vulgarly shed its ordures', now turned into an ' ordure itself.
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 99
    • Only Madame herself seeing Jacob out had about her that leer, that lewdness, that quake of the surface (visible in the eyes chiefly), which threatens to spill the whole bag of ordure , with difficulty held together, over the pavement.

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