In heraldry, an escutcheon (/ɪˈskʌtʃən/) is a shield that forms the main or focal element in an achievement of arms. The word can be used in two related...
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Look up escutcheon or escutcheons in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Escutcheon may refer to: Escutcheon (heraldry), a shield or shield-shaped emblem...
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entitled. An achievement comprises not only the arms displayed on the escutcheon, the central element, but also the following elements surrounding it (from...
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Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology...
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field). In civic heraldry, a lozenge sable is often used in coal-mining communities to represent a lump of coal. A lozenge-shaped escutcheon is used to depict...
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In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon (shield). That may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ordinary)...
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with an inescutcheon of the house of Bourbon-Anjou. In Scots heraldry the escutcheon en surtout serves several different purposes. This all comes under...
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England as an escutcheon covered with Arabian gold with leopards made of rubies (lines 310–320).[full citation needed] Orange (heraldry) Rose (heraldic...
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Inescutcheon (category Heraldry)
In heraldry, an inescutcheon is a smaller escutcheon that is placed within or superimposed over the main shield of a coat of arms, similar to a charge...
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legitimate descendants) in which case her paternal arms are displayed on an escutcheon of pretence in the centre of her husband's arms, denoting that the husband...
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