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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The prince is a proud man, as proud as the Leopard ramping on his princely scutcheon.
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
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
From the very first day an empty house had been bedecked with the title of hospital, and adorned with the scutcheon of the Red Cross.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
Above were the Rosen arms upon a large scutcheon, also of bronze, the shield of the good knight who slept within the tent.
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall
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