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d'or

d'or

See also: dor, dór, dôr, -dor, dor., D. Or., and Dor.

English

Adjective

d'or ‎(not comparable)

(heraldry, postpositive) Of gold; golden.
- William Camden
  On a shield azure Apollo, the inventor of phisique, proper, with his head radiant, holdinge in his left hand a bowe, and his right hande an arrow d'or […]
- 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
  ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
  ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’