scutcheon

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  1. noun An escutcheon.
  2. noun A shield-shaped object, such as a scute.

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  • "The shives (or bark) were separated by striking the flax with a wooden knife, as the flax was held over a board, called a scutcheon board," Duis noted. —  News from www.pantagraph.com
  • The blot was there on the scutcheon, and could never be argued away. —  The Prairie Mother
  • To be a traitor seemed the only blot that remained for his sullied scutcheon, and she had never dreamed of that. —  Venetia
  • So the blot was wiped off her scutcheon, and Emily's secret was still intact, for no one ever asked again what Hinpoha had been doing in the electric room on the afternoon of the Thessalonian play CHAPTER XI ANOTHER COASTING PARTY This is the terrible Hunger Moon, the lean gray wolf can hardly bay," quoted Hinpoha, as she threw out a handful of crumbs for the birds. —  The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers
  • There they were, just as I had seen them --scutcheon, portrait, glove, and pounce-box. —  The Yeoman Adventurer
 

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  1. Formerly also scutchion, scutchin; from Middle English scotchyne, scochone, by apheresis from escutcheon: see escutcheon.
 

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/ˈskətʃən/
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