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'scutcheon

'scutcheon is the alternative form of scutcheon.

Meaning of scutcheon

Noun

scutcheon (plural scutcheons)

  1. An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.
    • But she againe him in the shield did smite / With so fierce furie and great puissaunce, / That, through his three-square scuchin piercing quite / And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce / The wicked steele through his left side did glaunce.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. An escutcheon; a small plate of metal, such as the shield around a keyhole.

Forms of 'scutcheon

plural'scutcheons

Questions about 'scutcheon

What is 'scutcheon the alternative form of?
'scutcheon is the alternative form of scutcheon.

Words near 'scutcheon in the dictionary

  1. 'Sconset
  2. 'scuse
  3. 'scused
  4. 'scuses
  5. 'scusing
  6. 'scutcheon
  7. 'scutcheons
  8. 'sdain
  9. 'sdained
  10. 'sdaining
  11. 'sdains

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