escutchion

escutchion (plural escutchions)

1. Obsolete spelling of escutcheon.
   • 1600, Iohn Stow, “Queene Elizabeth”, in The Annales of England, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press and Felix Kingston for] Ralfe Newbery, →OCLC, page 1291:

     Then pꝛocéeded the Pꝛieſtes, and Chantries of the towne in their Surplices, ſinging, bearing 42. Croſſes of ſiluer, which was the iuſt number of the pariſhes, and chappels in the towne, and euery croſſe had a great banner of a Saint, richly painted thereon, beſides two tapers of white ware in aultar candleſticks, boꝛne by youths, and euery taper armed with an Eſcutchion of the kings armes.

   • 1756, Margaret Calderwood, “Preliminary Note: Rotterdam depicted: […]”, in Alexander Fergusson, editor, Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton, from England, Holland and the Low Countries in 1756, Edinburgh: […] David Douglas, published 1884, →OCLC, page 86:

     This church is battered as full of escutchions as the wall can hold.

   • 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “An Affectionate Exhortation to Those who in Early Life Feel Themselves Disposed to Become Authors”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 231:

     [B]e not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honourable augmentation to your arms; but not constitute the coat, or fill the escutchion!