Definition of "escroll" []

• A scroll. (noun)
• A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, anciently placed above the shield and supporting the crest. (noun)
• In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed. (noun)

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• "The treaty, thus concluded at the end of March, was to lie as an _escroll_ in the hands of the Marquis of"
• "Peterborough Cathedral; or with an escroll, as in No. 397, from a miserere in the fine and interesting church at Ludlow."
• "At the first, either a single Feather was borne, the quill generally transfixing an escroll, as in No. 394, from the monument of Prince"