Shield border, in heraldry

The answer

ORLE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORLE answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ORLE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ORLE, most used first.

• Heraldic border - used 71 times, most recently in 2016
• Heraldic band - used 66 times, most recently in 2015
• Shield border - used 45 times, most recently in 2017
• Heraldic bearing. - used 28 times, most recently in 1996
• Escutcheon border. - used 19 times, most recently in 2003
• Wreath on a knight's helmet - used 17 times, most recently in 1993
• Heraldic fillet - used 12 times, most recently in 1996
• Heraldic wreath - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
• Coat-of-arms border - used 8 times, most recently in 2019

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Border on - ABUT, used 472 times
• Border - EDGE, used 232 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Grafted, in heraldry - ENTE, used 60 times
• Border - ABUT, used 59 times
• Shield. - EGIS, used 44 times

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