escutcheon
noun
a shield or shieldlike surface on which a coat of arms is depicted.
escutcheoned
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a word derived from
escutcheon.
Example Sentences
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Now a past, however escutcheoned and fame-enrolled, is even more starvation diet than a future of affection and self-confidence.
From Southern Lights and Shadows by William Dean Howells
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
From the plaza with its acacia trees we mounted the steep grass-grown streets, past one baronial mansion after another, with old escutcheoned doorways blazoned with plumed helmet and shield.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Before him a lacquey in my escutcheoned livery of red-and-gold was receiving, with back obsequiously bent, his hat and cloak.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
The emperor and empress thereupon take their places on the dais beneath the great escutcheoned golden canopy, and in front of the two chairs of state that represent the thrones.
From The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) by Mme. la Marquise de Fontenoy
