escutcheon
noun
a shield or shieldlike surface on which a coat of arms is depicted.
escutcheoned
-
a word derived from
escutcheon.
Example Sentences
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The rays of the newly-risen sun struggled through the escutcheoned panes and cast a variegated sheen over all, and a candle which had outlasted its fellows shone with a pale sickly light.
From The Princess Galva A Romance by David Whitelaw
The key stones of the arches, instead of being escutcheoned, were ornamented also with clusters of diamonds in brilliant devices.
From Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century by James Napier
The moving flare that ringed The escutcheoned hearse, lit every leaf distinct Along the hedges and woke the sleeping birds, But drew no watchers from the drowsier farms.
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
The invincible city lies unpretentiously behind its green glacis and escutcheoned gates; but the guardian Lion under the Citadel—well, the Lion is figuratively as well as literally a la hauteur.
From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton
After I followed her from Santa Clara, That mass-hour, To an escutcheoned door!
From A Night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice
