Definition of "inescutcheon" [in•es•cutch•eon]

• A small escutcheon within another (noun)

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• "In the centre is an inescutcheon bearing the Union Jack honouring the role of the military college and its alumni in defending King, Country and Empire in the various wars."
• "Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules."
• "Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of"