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- noun Plural form of
escocheon .
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Examples
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"But hast thou fully understood that she is of Jewish descent, which many Christian knights would count a blot on their escocheons?"
Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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The variations were progressive and frequent; at first the female effigy had the kirtle or inner garment emblazoned, or held the escocheon over her head, or in her right hand; then three escocheons met in the centre, or four were joined at their bases, if the alliance admitted of so many.
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By this means the monuments of the dead, which elsewhere they brake up and violated, stood untouch'd; escocheons and arms of the nobility and gentry remained undefaced; the seats and stalls of the quire escaped breaking down; only those things which were wont to stuff up parliamentary petitions, and were branded by the leaders of the faction for popery and innovations; in these they took liberty to let loose their wild zeal: they brake down the rails about the Lord's table or altar; they seized upon the velvet of the holy table; and, in contempt of those holy misteries which were celebrated on the table, removed the table itself into a lower part of the church.
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* He wished to have some escocheons of silk upon the pall, of the arms of his ofHce, without the crown, impalS OF [l/Sp. if Mr. Jackson * and Mr. Newton - jf are willing to make any alterations in their verses, pray let it be done before they are published.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812
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