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Etymology

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From em- +‎ border.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
    • 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:
      Among thick woven arborets and flours
      Emborder'd on each bank

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