brisure

English

Etymology

French brisure, from briser (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈzjʊə(ɹ)/, /bɹɪˈʒʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

brisure (plural brisures)

1. Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
2. (heraldry) A mark of cadency or difference.
   • 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry ..., page 89:

     The baton is made now very short by the French, who call it baton peri, and is always a brisure, frequently made use of by the younger sons of France, of which I have treated in my marks of cadency, and shall do so again […]

   • 1896, John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 172:

     But the bar (being a horizontal piece, a diminutive of the Fess), is not used like the French barre as a brisure for illegitimacy; a bar-sinister is an absurdity and impossibility.

Further reading

• “brisure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• bruiser, buriers

French

Etymology

From briser +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.zyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

brisure f (plural brisures)

1. chip (small broken piece of material)

Further reading

• “brisure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

brisure f

1. plural of brisura