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A '''tressure''' is a [[ordinary (heraldry)|subordinary]] that can be regarded as a diminutive of an orle. John Woodward is of the opinion that "a plain tressure is a diminutive of the orle, and is depicted half its thickness".{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} A tressure is described as representing the circular raised line on a coin that shows the user if the coin has been clipped or overly worn. A double tressure is normally an 'orle gemel', i.e. an orle divided into two narrow ones set closely together, one inside the other, with artists interpreting it as composed of two narrow orles each being one-third or one-fourth the width and the void between them being one-third or one-half the width. [[Arthur Charles Fox-Davies|A. C. Fox-Davies]] argued that a tressure is by necessity doubled, otherwise it would be an orle. However, examples exist of coats of arms with a single tressure, as in the arms of Edward Lawrence.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/resources/edwardlawrence.htm |title=Edward Lawrence] |access-date=2010-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121121612/http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/resources/edwardlawrence.htm |archive-date=2008-11-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>