NOUN
- a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
- a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms
How To Use scutcheon In A Sentence
- 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
- The dexter coat is dimidiated, with half of the inescutcheon and three and two halves of the cross crosslets visible.
- 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
- An old grayheaded beadsman of the family talked to us of a blot in the scutcheon; and we had observed that the field of the arms was green instead of blue, and the lions ramping to the right, contrary to order. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
- There were ballads to make the heart beat fast, and one little tragedy, _The Blot in the 'Scutcheon_, which, though not over-disposed to what he called sentimentality, I could not read without tears. Stories of Authors, British and American
- 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.
- This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.
- He gave the monumental facades along K Street and 15th Street elaborately detailed copper window architraves, stringcourses, cornices, and escutcheons.
- In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags 'heads caboshed. Shakespeare's Family
- Over the solemn portals are ancient mystic escutcheons — vast shields of princes and cardinals, such as The Newcomes