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Definition of Scutcheons
1. scutcheon [n] - See also: scutcheon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutcheons
Literary usage of Scutcheons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1853)
"The scutcheons which, alas.' were at this time laid low in England. The marshal.
The earl of Chester. The earl of Arundel. The earl of Mandeville. ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"With gloomy grandeur rose, And down the dark and " long-drawn " aisle, Where
sculptur'd forms the thoughts beguile, ' Banners and 'scutcheons, round the ..."
3. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch, Philo, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1854)
"... Series of Royal scutcheons are those which have been employed in the body of
the work, but which in the German edition were given in Plates at the end. ..."
4. The History of the Holy War by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"Of the honourable Arms in scutcheons of Nobility occasioned by their Service in
... NOW for a corollary to this story, if we survey the scutcheons of the ..."
5. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools by Simon Kerl (1868)
"J With 'scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, 4f+ And pages stand mute by
the canopied pall : 4 a 4- Through the courts, at deep midnight, ..."
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