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hatchment

[ hach-muhnt ]

noun

Heraldry.
  1. a square tablet, set diagonally, bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person.


hatchment

/ ˈæʃəԳ /

noun

  1. heraldry a diamond-shaped tablet displaying the coat of arms of a dead person Also calledachievement
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hatchment1

First recorded in 1540–50; variant (by syncopation and aspiration) of achievement
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hatchment1

C16: changed from achievement
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Example Sentences

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She gently and tactfully let Olive know that she had found out the identity of the great man, and they went together to stand for a minute or two outside Ayr House, where the hatchment, crape-hung, was all that was left of so much grandeur and of such high dignities and honors.

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It would be cynical to say that at such a moment Mr. Beadon derived a positive pleasure from conducting a mass of requiem for the dead earl, and if for a moment he regarded with a kind of gloomy triumph Squire Kingdon's inevitable conformity to the majestic ritual of woe expressed by the catafalque from which depended the dead earl's hatchment, he made up by the grave eloquence of his funeral oration for any fleeting pettiness.

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An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

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Then, or it might be a fortnight afterwards--so long I think respect for my lady's loss and the new hatchment restrained the good-for-naughts--the trouble began.

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Hatchment, hach′ment, n. the arms of a deceased person within a black lozenge-shaped frame, meant to be placed on the front of his house.

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