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
Thus did the successor of the relentless but unavailing della Torretta try, with eloquent and noble words, to wipe the blot from Italy's scutcheon.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein
Tancredi burlesques the knightly reverence for a stainless scutcheon by the extravagance of his revenge.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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