escutcheon
/ɪˈskʌt͡ʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The shield on which a coat of arms is displayed, or, by extension, the coat of arms itself.
noun
The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
noun
A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It was once taken as an index of milking qualities.
noun
A decorative or protective plate or bezel designed to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.
noun
The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Example Sentences
- "Meronyms: field, charge, emblem"
- "He dies: his very coffin is comfortable; the very vault of his ancestors is sheltered; a funeral sermon is preached in his honour; and escutcheon and marble tablet do their best to preserve his memory."
- "And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them."
- "The hair becomes darker and coarser during pubic hair stage 3, spreading over the pubic symphysis with gradual progression to a full female escutcheon."
- "The milk-mirror, or escutcheon, is formed by the hair above the udder, extending upwards between the thighs, […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Proto-Indo-European *skoy-tó-m Proto-Italic *skoitom? Latin scūtum Old French escutder. Old French escu Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Frankishinflu. Old French -on Anglo-Norman escuchonbor. Middle English scochon English escutcheon From Middle English scochon, from Anglo-Norman escuchon, Old French escusson (French écusson), ultimately from Latin scutum (“shield”). Related to scutum, scute, scudo, escudo, and écu.