escutcheon meaning
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[ɪˈskʌtʃən] [-ʌtʃən] WEscutcheon
- Escutcheon (pronounced /ɪˈskʌtʃən/, i-SKUCH-ən) may refer to:
- Escutcheon (heraldry), a shield or shield-shaped emblem, displaying a coat of arms
- Escutcheon (furniture), an item of door furniture that surrounds a keyhole or lock cylinder
- Escutcheon (firearms), a piece of metal inlet into the wood on the wrist of a gunstock between the tang and the stock comb as decoration and/or engraved for identification.
- a decorative plate that surrounds a faucet in a bathtub or shower
- (in medicine) the distribution of pubic hair
- NounPLescutcheons
- (heraldry) An individual or corporate coat of arms.
- And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.
- (heraldry) A small shield used to charge a larger one.
- (medicine) The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
- A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It was once taken as an index of milking qualities.
- (nautical) The part of a ship's stern where its name is displayed.
- A decorative and/or protective plate or bezel to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.
- The insignia around a doorknob's exterior hardware or a door lock's cosmetic plate.
- The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
- (heraldry) An individual or corporate coat of arms.
Definition of escutcheon in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "escutcheon" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.