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scuchion

scuchion is the obsolete 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 scuchion

pluralscuchions

Questions about scuchion

What is scuchion the obsolete form of?
Scuchion is the obsolete form of scutcheon.

Words near scuchion in the dictionary

  1. scubaed
  2. scubaing
  3. scubas
  4. scuchin
  5. scuchins
  6. scuchion
  7. scuchions
  8. scud
  9. scud ran
  10. scud run
  11. scud running

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scuchion (page history and authors); scutcheon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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