WikiWord

English

escutcheons

noun

Meaning

  1. An individual or corporate coat of arms.
  2. A small shield used to charge a larger one.
  3. The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
  4. 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.
  5. The part of a ship's stern where its name is displayed.
  6. A decorative and/or protective plate or bezel to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
escutcheons — meaning and etymology | WikiWord