escutcheon Examples
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[ɪˈskʌtʃən] [-ʌtʃən] - Examples of escutcheon
- A chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
- A fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.
- an escutcheon party per pale
- Examples of escutcheons
- One has gorgeous glimpses of that grand Durham House of his, with its carvings and its antique marbles, armorial escutcheons, “ beds with green silk hangings and legs like dolphins, overlaid with gold ;” and the man himself, tall, beautiful and graceful, perfect alike in body and in mind, walking to and fro, his beautiful wife upon his arm, his noble boy beside his knee, in his “ white satin doublet embroidered with pearls, and a great chain of pearls about his neck,” lording it among the lords with “ an awfulness and ascendency above other mortals,” for which men say that “ his næve is, that he is damnable proud ;” and no wonder.
Examples of escutcheon in a Sentence
Source: Wiktionary