escutcheon

Example Sentences

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If you’re looking for a kitchen or bathroom faucet that can be installation-friendly, one-hole faucets with optional escutcheon base plates can usually be used for one- or three-hole faucet applications.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022

Henry’s blazon is even more traditional than his wife’s; here’s just the part dealing with the escutcheon:

From Slate • May 26, 2018

The Cadillac escutcheon, now modernized and free of laurels, is centered in the full-frame grille, and it never looked better.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2016

He wrote again, rejecting Jefferson’s view that “the difficult work of cleansing the escutcheon of Virginia” should fall solely upon young men like himself.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2016

Like a new Boy Scout, transported with enthusiasm, he would have stuck the cross on his escutcheon, on his coat, on his helm, on his saddle, and on the horse’s curb.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White