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 prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally, is it a reality or, as Falstaff said of honor, is it after all "a word," "a mere scutcheon?"
From Concerning Justice by Emery, Lucilius A.
You have blotted the noblest, the proudest scutcheon of England.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
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