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    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     

    ..I learnt today. So, hands up, without googling, who knows what an escutcheon is?

    • 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.

    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     
    @ david - next word: Finial.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2008
     

    Ronaldo's hair style?

    • 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.

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeApr 30th 2008
     

    I thought Martine Escutcheon was great in 'Stenders.

    • 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.