Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Emblazoned; ornamented or surmounted by a scutcheon or emblazoned shield.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Emblazoned on or as a shield.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
emblazoned on, or as if on, ashield
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Examples
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But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals -- French and English -- littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals -- French and English -- littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals -- French and English -- littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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