d'or

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

English

Etymology

French, from de (“of”) + or (“gold”).

Adjective

d'or (not comparable)

  1. (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.’

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