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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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
Happily the Strongest man seemed, last week, on the point of wiping from his scutcheon the stain of treachery.
From Time Magazine Archive
THE SWAN�A finely shaded picture of a royal family engaged in the indoor sport of keeping a blot off the scutcheon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was as noble a Chapelle as any in the county, now, in the windowe, like a great bay windowe is only one scutcheon left entire; viz: Stafford,—Or, a chevron gules.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
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