escutcheon

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Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary .

From Time Magazine Archive

The husband of an Heiress or a Co-heiress, instead of impaling the arms of his wife, marshals them upon his Shield charged as an Escutcheon of Pretence.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

In the monument of this great Earl, at Warwick, upon the Escutcheon of Pretence the arms of Bohun are quartered with those of Clare and Despencer.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

Escutcheon, es-kuch′un, n. a shield on which a coat of arms is represented: a family shield: the part of a vessel's stern bearing her name.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Whose fault?—not mine! but hers or his, that ancestor who gave Escutcheon to our humble house—a death's-head and a grave.

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.