"scutcheon" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of escutcheon.",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.",
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          "ref": "1627, Francis Bacon, Essays of Francis Bacon or Counsels, Civil and Moral, Chapter 29. \"Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates\"",
          "text": "There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry; which nevertheless are conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and some remembrance perhaps, upon the scutcheon; and some hospitals for maimed soldiers; and such like things."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims:",
          "text": "The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.",
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        "An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield."
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          "emblazon",
          "emblazon"
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          "shield"
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        "An escutcheon; a small plate of metal, such as the shield around a keyhole."
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      "ipa": "/ˈskʌtʃ(ə)n/",
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      "word": "scutcheonless"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Aphetic form of escutcheon.",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1627, Francis Bacon, Essays of Francis Bacon or Counsels, Civil and Moral, Chapter 29. \"Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates\"",
          "text": "There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry; which nevertheless are conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and some remembrance perhaps, upon the scutcheon; and some hospitals for maimed soldiers; and such like things."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1935, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims:",
          "text": "The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.",
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        }
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      ],
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      ],
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