fimbriation

English

Left: or, a fess argent (attributed to Manfred of Sicily); right: or, a fess argent, fimbriated azure (Yuncos, Toledo).

Etymology

From fimbriate +‎ -ion.

Noun

fimbriation (countable and uncountable, plural fimbriations)

  1. (uncountable, heraldry, flags) The use of a thin stripe of a contrasting tincture (colour) around a charge, ordinary or stripe in order to make it stand out from the background.
  2. (countable, heraldry, flags) Such a stripe.
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