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- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
..I learnt today. So, hands up, without googling, who knows what an escutcheon is?
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- CommentAuthorPoxy
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
It's the metal plate around a key hole, innit? -
- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008 edited
Yep. I didn't know that. Searching on google for a 'lock cover' and then stumbled across its impossibly fancy name. I must read the dictionary more.
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- CommentAuthorColette
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
@ david - next word: Finial. -
- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
Ronaldo's hair style?
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- CommentAuthorFour Eyes
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008 edited
"blot on one's escutcheon"
a stain on one's reputation; disgrace. (courtesy of dictionary.com)
10 points if you can slip that casually into conversation this afternoon...
[Middle English escochon, from Anglo-Norman escuchon, from Vulgar Latin *scūtiō, scūtiōn-, from Latin scūtum, shield; see skei- in Indo-European roots.] -
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
Like a Sheila Maid. I knew what I was after, but could I find one? No. Easy when you know what it's called though. -
- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeApr 29th 2008 edited
"He's a cod. He's a blot on Football's escutcheon." - Eamonn Dunphyism.
We have a Sheila's Maid, albeit in a modern type way. We're currently toying with subverting the maid to run vertical down a wall instead of protruding like a shelf. Not sure how this will go though.
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- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
I thought Martine Escutcheon was great in 'Stenders.
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- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
My use of the word 'architrave' had a massive spike shortly after buying our flat, but now almost never gets brought out.
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