escutcheon
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Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary .
From Time Magazine Archive
The armorial insignia of unmarried ladies and widows, with the sole exception of a Sovereign, are blazoned on a Lozenge instead of an Escutcheon.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
Where for the Escutcheon of Pretence each noble person bears the Hieroglyphic of that vertue he is famous for.
From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin
An Escutcheon, when borne as a charge, is usually blazoned as an “Inescutcheon”: thus, the Arms of Hay are,—Arg., three inescutcheons gu.: see also Nos.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.
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.
