escutcheons
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noun
- An individual or corporate coat of arms.
- A small shield used to charge a larger one.
- The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
- 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.