scutcheon
Americannoun
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a variant of escutcheon
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any rounded or shield-shaped structure, esp a scute
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Happily the Strongest man seemed, last week, on the point of wiping from his scutcheon the stain of treachery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hercule Poirot prods the memories of surviving participants in a 16-year-old English seaside poisoning affair, pulls out the unsuspected killer and clears the scutcheon of a young girl whose mother was convicted of the crime.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second knight that hung his scutcheon up He doth as he did before.
From The Spanish Tragedy by Kyd, Thomas
There erst was martial Marmion found, His feet upon a couchant hound, His hands to Heaven upraised: And all around on scutcheon rich, And tablet carved, and fretted niche, His arms and feats were blazed.
From Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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