'scutcheon

See also: scutcheon

English

Noun

'scutcheon (plural 'scutcheons)

1. Alternative form of scutcheon.
   • 1724, John Guillim, chapter VII, in A Display of Heraldry. […], 6th edition, London: […] T. W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, […] [a]nd J. Walthoe and Tho[mas] Ward, […], →OCLC, page 49, column 1:

     [A]n Ineſcutcheon is properly the Charge of a Shield, and born vvithin a 'Scutcheon or Shield, […]

   • 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Blakesmore in H⁠——⁠shire”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:

     Or wherefore, else, O tattered and diminished ’Scutcheon that hung upon the time-worn walls of thy princely stairs, Blakesmoor! have I in childhood so oft stood poring upon thy mystic characters—thy emblematic supporters, with their prophetic “Resurgam”—till, every dreg of peasantry purging off, I received into myself Very Gentility?

   • 1843, Robert Browning, “A Blot in the ’Scutcheon. A Tragedy.”, in Poems […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1849, →OCLC, act II, page 31:

     Does that huge tome show some blot / In the Earl’s ’scutcheon come no longer back / Than Arthur’s time?

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 32:

     We've been found to be the greatest gentlefolk in the whole county—reaching all back long before Oliver Grumble's time—to the days of the Pagan Turks—with monuments, and vaults, and crests, and 'scutcheons, and the Lord knows what all.