emborder

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verb

To furnish or adorn with a border.

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Meanings

verbemborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)

present singular third person emborders · participle present embordering · participle past embordered · past embordered · alternative imborder · alternative imbordure

  1. archaictransitiveTo 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
  2. archaictransitivegovernmentTo border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.

Origin

From em- + border.

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APA

emborder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emborder

MLA

“emborder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emborder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “emborder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emborder.

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