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Escutcheoned :: Escutcheoned (a.) Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.

Armorial :: Armorial (a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.

Scutcheoned :: Scutcheoned (a.) Emblazoned on or as a shield.

Amethyst :: Amethyst () A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms..

Lozenge :: Lozenge (n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

Achievement :: Achievement (n.) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

Couche :: Couche (v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point..

Coward :: Coward (a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

Unsoutcheoned :: Unsoutcheoned (a.) Destitute of an escutcheon.

Purpure :: Purpure (n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base)..

Abyss :: Abyss (n.) The center of an escutcheon.

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written.

Inescutcheon :: Inescutcheon (n.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

Dancette :: Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon..

Field :: Field (n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver)..

Scutcheon :: Scutcheon (n.) An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield.

Palet :: Palet (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale..

Shield :: Shield (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

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