escutcheon of pretence

English

Noun

escutcheon of pretence (plural escutcheons of pretence)

1. (heraldry, UK) An escutcheon used to display the arms of the bearer's wife; not commonly used unless she is an heiress.

See also

• impalement

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “escutcheon of pretence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)