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Miscellaneous technical uses. A hanging shield or escutcheon. Obsolete.
A lozenge-shaped shield upon which the arms of a spinster or widow are emblazoned.
Heraldry. The oval escutcheon of the Pope and ‘churchmen of noble descent’.