How To Use Escutcheon In A Sentence
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Is the handle a chrome lever or a reproduction brass handle with a hand-engraved escutcheon?
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In the place where the breach was opened by his cannon he ordered the placing of a marble panel bearing his arms; and there it is to be seen to this day: Dexter, the sable bars of the House of Lenzol; Sinister, the Borgia bull in chief, and the lilies of France; and, superimposed, an inescutcheon bearing the Pontifical arms.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
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The dexter coat is dimidiated, with half of the inescutcheon and three and two halves of the cross crosslets visible.
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Round the "autel des anges," richest of them all, is a row of eighteen niches, filled in with the figures of angels, holding alternately phylacteries and escutcheons; round the top is a cornice of thistle-leaves — on the cut stalk of one hangs a dew-drop perfect to nature.
Brittany & Its Byways
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Six garlands hang from the west gallery on heart-shaped escutcheons and five bear the initials of the deceased and the date of his or her death.
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This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.
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He gave the monumental facades along K Street and 15th Street elaborately detailed copper window architraves, stringcourses, cornices, and escutcheons.
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In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags 'heads caboshed.
Shakespeare's Family
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Over the solemn portals are ancient mystic escutcheons — vast shields of princes and cardinals, such as
The Newcomes
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“Peter” has a tawdry hall, smeared with the escutcheons of all nations, where music and waltzing whirl through the dense air, hour after hour; and what is at least of equal consequence to him, Peter holds a tavern in the next room, where spirits, beer, or coffee are equally at the command of the drouthy or the luxuriant.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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There followed the imperial, French, Venetian, and Portuguese ambassadors, the clergy, and a small army of mourners carrying banners and escutcheons decorated with gold and silver.
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In those waste regions of oblivion, dusky banners and tattered escutcheons indicated the graves of those who were once, doubtless, “princes in Israel.”
Rob Roy
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Clack Row, "mentioned in the preceding extract from the minutes, and it is likely that there is some connection between the" escutcheon "ordered and his burial, i.e. it was, probably ordered for his coffin, he being" in extremis "at the time the
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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The fair fame of Harvard is the possession of every son and daughter of Massachusetts, and the least stain that mars her escutcheon is the sorrow of all.
Gala-days
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An undated price list refers to handles, escutcheons, plates, and hinges available in nickel-plate or gilt finishes.
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The brass plate and escutcheon are inlaid, and the interior includes an ebonized penholder, ivory grips, the original baize lining, and two original lead glass ink bottles.
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He had a badge in his cap and on his arm a brassard with the royal escutcheon; he invariably honoured me with a stiff, military salute which increased my importance in the hotel at the expense of my reputation as an innocent and unofficial man of letters.
The Complete Stories
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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The escutcheons are presented by a variety of actors and animals - wild men and women, dancers, lions, and so forth.
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According to these orders, Robinson supplied fifty mortise locks, thirty-six pairs of octagonal glass knobs, twelve plain knob sets, and forty-eight escutcheons.
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Gu. an inescutcheon arg. between D escallop shells in saltine or.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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An orle is a perforated inescutcheon, and usually takes the shape of the shield whereon it is placed.
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Dexter, the sable bars of the House of Lenzol; Sinister, the Borgia bull in chief, and the lilies of France; and, superimposed, an inescutcheon bearing the Pontifical arms.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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It's cream colored and needlessly fancy, and, if you squint, you can make out the gold words reading "Lerner Shops" at the top of the building, at the center of green escutcheons on the left and on the right.
My Fair Relic
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On the dexter and sinister sides, two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, and two cane heads, issuant of the third; the first having one eye, couchant, towards the dexter side of the escutcheon; the second faced, per pale, proper, and gules guardant.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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It closed no lantern -- it obstructed no view -- and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device.
A Love Story
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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Written in Gothic letters of gold leaf, the composer's name on the portrait above his left shoulder recalls the style of the escutcheons of the knights of the Golden Fleece.
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Gu. an inescutcheon arg. between D escallop shells in saltine or.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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Until 1917 (when the British royal family dropped German titles), the male-line descendants of Queen Victoria bore the arms of Saxony (for Prince Albert) on an inescutcheon over the royal arms.
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[64] Gutierre de Cardenas was the first who pointed him out to the princess, exclaiming at the same time, "_Ese es, ese es_," "This is he;" in commemoration of which he was permitted to place on his escutcheon the letters SS, whose pronunciation in Spanish resembles that of the exclamation which he had uttered.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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Inside was one of the long-missing wall escutcheons that someone had evidently pried off the palace.
In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures
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Made of highly figured mahogany it retains its original large brass handles and keyhole escutcheons.
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Over the years chairs have lost casters or the casters have lost their leather wraps; chests are without pulls, escutcheons, and decorative mounts; and the hinges of secretary doors have vanished.
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In this illustration the inescutcheon is shown over the impaled arms, whereas His Grace bears it only over the family arms; and the doves here are pictured sable rather than argent.
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If you have a swivel stud that threads into an escutcheon under the barrel channel use contact cement to secure the escutcheon, then when you screw the swivel stud into the escutcheon, use loctite #271 on the threads. aint nothin gonna unscrew, unless you want it to! ref: Brownells catalog, page 201To avoid slings slipping off your shoulder, get a LARGE button, 1 inch or so, sew it on with "spider wire" or similar wonder line.
My Range Bag
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The closest thing to a blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home.
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Of all those knights and baronets, lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted upon the walls of the famous hall of the
The History of Pendennis
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As weaponry began to render body armor obsolete, coats of arms were scaled down and used on tunics and caps, still in the form of the escutcheon or shield.
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He holds up a ripped piece of cardboard, the escutcheon of his stockless trade.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are sonework niches in the facade, and, over the doors, are escutcheons of stonework, emblazoned with...
Navel Gazing with the Lions
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Dorsetshire, of the latter period, is of stone, the upper part worked in plain oblong panels; and a kind of escutcheon within one of these bears the date 1592; the lower part or basement of this pulpit is circular in form.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon.
MR STARLIGHT
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Philip the Bold, by having an inescutcheon of pretence on the centre of the arms of Margaret de Maele, first assumed by his father, John the
Illuminated Manuscripts
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These, a helpful warden explains, belong to those who blotted their escutcheons as often as not with a royal lady with whom they should not have and were stripped of their honours.
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Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
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a shield of arms, within an orb ar.sa. a spread eagle of the first bearing an escutcheon of pretence ar. a lion ppr. in chief in base a chev.gu. charged with three escallop shells of the first, impaling a saltire sa. between four crosses fitche of the same.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829
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To the left of the escutcheon was the figure of a woman, standing.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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The present locks and escutcheons are not original.
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Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip.
Bleak House
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Arms of the Office are -- _Arg., a lion sejant erect and affronté gu., holding in his dexter paw a thistle slipped vert, and in the sinister an escutcheon of the second; on a chief az., a saltire of the first_: No. 266.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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On a mount vert a walnut tree, ppr.; on the sinister side an escutcheon pendent charged with the Arms of France, with a label of three points ar.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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Each chest has graduated drawers with solid, mahogany drawer fronts and original elaborate cast-brass pulls and escutcheons.
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Step across its threshold (beneath the royal escutcheon of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain) and you brush against a time when these colonnades shaded both piety and intrigue.
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The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Made of rosewood with mahogany as the secondary wood, it includes brass stringing on the top and sides and an inlaid flush brass escutcheon and central brass plate.
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Camden society what the old church at Jamestown probably was, may be seen the tomb of a Tazewell, who died in 1706, on which is engraved the coat of arms of the family, -- a lion rampant, bearing a helmet with a vizor closed on his back; an escutcheon, which is evidently of Norman origin, and won by some daring feat of arms, and which could only have been held by one of the conquering race.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
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Victorian outcry against what was termed 'a blot 'on the already rather shady' escutcheon 'of Australia, the immigration was stopped in 1868.
Town Life in Australia
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Lockey makes the same point by transferring the family escutcheons to the yellow curtain on the left, where they become, in effect, emblems of folly.
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GEORGE III., till 1816: -- The arms indicated in the diagram, No. 430, the inescutcheon ensigned with an electoral bonnet.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H. 3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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It retains not only its original octagonal stamped English brasses and ivory escutcheons but also most of its gray-blue paper drawer and cupboard lining.
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Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
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The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall.
Youth and Egolatry
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Her whiter-than-white teeth caused Biden boosters in the theater to recoil in horror at this blot on Joe's enamel escutcheon.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
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In the centre is an inescutcheon bearing the Union Jack honouring the role of the military college and its alumni in defending King, Country and Empire in the various wars.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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Remove the faucet handles, escutcheons, shower heads, and spigots.
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What had promised to be a splendid scandal looked like fizzling out like the dampest of squibs, and this damned baronet would walk away without a blot on his escutcheon ... or so it seemed to me just then.
Watershed
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This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_
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Fortunately my younger brother was able to remove this blot from the family escutcheon by joining the Canadian Army in 1941.
Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic
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Although apparently executed largely by Veronese's workshop, this picture bears in the central foreground an escutcheon placed on an imperial eagle, which might help identify the original patron.
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Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
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Hero is here the proper name, for there was some contention, and the men who had titles crowd all others beneath their titles and escutcheons.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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All baronets are entitled to display in their coat of arms, either on a canton or on an inescutcheon, the red hand of Ulster, save those of Nova
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon.
MR STARLIGHT
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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In German and Scottish armory the inescutcheon bears the symbols of the paternal side, but in English heraldry it is used to carry the arms of an heiress wife.
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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable,
Ulysses
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And you, child, are marrying a kinsman of that abominable Duc de Raguse in order to regild our family escutcheon.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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Arleigh -- unvail the first blot on one of the noblest escutcheons in the land.
Wife in Name Only
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This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_
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Nor was it hard to guess whose this must be, though not adorned by escutcheons, when the cross-roads to Harlowe-place were taken, as soon as it came within six miles of it; so that the hearse, and the solemn tolling of the bell, had drawn together at least fifty, or the neighbouring men, women, and children, and some of good appearance.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Holding out the word "government" as a kind of escutcheon to his people, it is Obama's message that his government is the ally not just of multicultural Democrats, as his opponents would have it, but the friend of all Americans.
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