Scutcheon

scutcheon
    n 1: a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to
         prevent soiling by dirty fingers [syn: {finger plate},
         {escutcheon}, {scutcheon}]
    2: a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms [syn:
       {escutcheon}, {scutcheon}]
    

Scutcheon \Scutch"eon\, n. [Aphetic form of escutcheon.]
   1. An escutcheon; an emblazoned shield. --Bacon.
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            The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of
            scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. A small plate of metal, as the shield around a keyhole.
      See {Escutcheon}, 4.
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102 Moby Thesaurus words for "scutcheon":
      achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent,
      armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister,
      baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry,
      bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge,
      chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest,
      cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing,
      eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon,
      fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur,
      fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet,
      heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon,
      label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal,
      motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale,
      paly, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable,
      saltire, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse,
      tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale