Noun

(en noun)

An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield ().

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:

*:But she againe him in the shield did smite / With so fierce furie and great puissaunce, / That, through his three-square scuchin piercing quite / And through his mayled hauberque, by mischaunce / The wicked steele through his left side did glaunce.

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons , wax lights, black hangings, and mutes. — Macaulay.

(Francis Bacon)

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A small plate of metal, such as the shield around a keyhole.