NOUN
- a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
- a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms
How To Use scutcheon In A Sentence
- Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon. MR STARLIGHT
- The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall. Youth and Egolatry
- Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
- It retains not only its original octagonal stamped English brasses and ivory escutcheons but also most of its gray-blue paper drawer and cupboard lining.
- The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H. 3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu. The Handbook to English Heraldry
- GEORGE III., till 1816: -- The arms indicated in the diagram, No. 430, the inescutcheon ensigned with an electoral bonnet. The Handbook to English Heraldry
- Lockey makes the same point by transferring the family escutcheons to the yellow curtain on the left, where they become, in effect, emblems of folly.
- The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breasta chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stags horn sinister. V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
- Will Marshal is buried in Kirkcudbright church, where his monument is still shown, decorated with a scutcheon suitably blazoned with two tups horns and two cutty spoons. Additional Note
- Victorian outcry against what was termed 'a blot 'on the already rather shady' escutcheon 'of Australia, the immigration was stopped in 1868. Town Life in Australia
