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scutcheons

scutcheons is the plural 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.

Questions about scutcheons

What is scutcheons the plural of?
Scutcheons is the plural of scutcheon.

Words near scutcheons in the dictionary

  1. scutch grasses
  2. scutched
  3. scutcheon
  4. scutcheoned
  5. scutcheonless
  6. scutcheons
  7. scutcher
  8. scutchers
  9. scutches
  10. scutchin
  11. scutching

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