inescutcheon
Britishnoun
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Queen Victoria, King Edward VII., and King George V.:—The same as No. 430, but without the inescutcheon, the four quarters being marshalled as on the Royal Standard, No. 416.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
From Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 by Various
Argent, an inescutcheon azure, border compony, or and gules.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
A cap of crimson velvet guarded with ermine, borne, in the Royal Arms, over the inescutcheon of the arms of Hanover from 1801 till 1816.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
A term applied to a single inescutcheon placed upon and in the centre of a larger escutcheon.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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