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Inescutcheon   Listen
noun
Inescutcheon  n.  (Her.) A small escutcheon borne within a shield.






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"Inescutcheon" Quotes from Famous Books



... so broad as an orle. It generally forms a border to the inescutcheon. Tressures are frequently borne double, and sometimes treble. They are generally ornamented flory and counter-flory. The example contains only a single tressure. The arms of Scotland exhibit an example of a double tressure flory and counter-flory, as exhibited ...
— The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition • Anonymous



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