bordelt (bordel)

[ OF. borde: see bordar. Bor del has been displaced by brothel2, q. v.] A brothel; a bawdy-house; a house devoted to prostitution. Making even his own house a stew, a bordel, and a school of lewdne . South. like. (c) A piece of ornamental trimming about the edge of a garment, a cap, etc. In the seventeenth century, and perhaps earlier, borders of garments were made detach able, similar to the apparels of the alb, and could be transferred from one garment to another; they were then rich ly embroidered, and are especially mentioned in wills and inventories. And beneath the cap's border gray mingles with brown. Whittier, The Quaker Alumni. (d) In her., the outer edge of the field when of different tincture from the center. Its width is uniform, and should be one fifth the width of the field. French heralds consider the border as one of the ordinaries; in English heraldry it is sometimes a mark of difference. The border always covers the end of any ordinary, as the chevron, fe , etc. When a coat of arms is impaled with another, if either of them has a border, it is not carried along the pale, but surrounds the outside of the field only. The border when charged with A Border Paly. an ordinary shows only so much of the ordinary as comes naturally upon that part of the field occupied by the border; thus, the cut represents a border paly of six pieces, azure and argent. 7t. A plait or braid of hair worn round the fore head. IMG:content-2338.png:[blocks in formation] with a border: as, to border a garment or a garden. Rivulets bordered with the softest gra . T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry. 2. To form a border or boundary to.-3. To lie on the border of; be contiguous to; adjoin; lie next. Sheba and Raamah border the Persian Gulf. Raleigh, 41. To confine or keep within bounds; limit. That nature, which contemns its origin, Cannot be border'd certain in itself. Shak ., Lear, iv. 2. II. in trans. To have a contiguous boundary or dividing line; abut exteriorly: with on or upon : as, the United States border on the two great oceans. Virtue and Honour had their temples bordering on each other and are sometimes both on the same coin. Add is on, Dialogues on Medals, ii. To border on or upon, figuratively, to approach closely in character; verge on; resemble closely: as, his conduct borders upon vulgarity. Wit which borders upon profanene deserves to be branded as folly. Til lots on, Works (ed. 1728), L. 83. bordered (bôr'derd), p. a. [