hatchment
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hatchment
First recorded in 1540–50; variant (by syncopation and aspiration) of achievement
Example Sentences
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Another hatchment with the arms of John Campbell and his second wife Henrietta Villiers — Elizabeth’s sister — made £3,250.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011
Shall thy hatchment, mouldering grimly in yon church amid the sands, Stay trouble from thy household?
From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret
The little fools seemed only born And hatched for nothing but a hatchment!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
May we not reasonably believe that these ladies would vie with each other in these displays of the insignia of mourning, until, by usage, the lozenge-shaped hatchment became the shield appropriated to the sex?
From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
She felt as if her own generation were passing away, when she returned to see the hatchment upon Beauchamp, and to hear of the widow’s failing health.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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