10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOT ON ONE'S ESCUTCHEON»
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... one's copybook spoil one's reputation or record She blotted her copybook by
not attending school that day. a blot on one's escutcheon an event that brings
disgrace to a family The badly arranged cocktail party was a blot on his
escutcheon.
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Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the ...
By extension, this term came to mean one's reputation, and a “blot” on one's
escutcheon can refer either to an unfair insult or actual ignoble behavior. Given
the reality of Chicago's beer dens, in this instance the usage would seem to be
the ...
Paul Durica, Bill Savage, 2013
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
2 he has been discharged without a stain on his character: blemish, injury, taint,
blot, blot on one's escutcheon, slur, smear, discredit, dishonour, stigma; damage.
3 an exterior type of wood stain: tint, colour, dye, tinge, shade, pigment, ...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, ...
How on earth this gives any idea such as we can connect with a blot on a copy, a
blot on one's escutcheon, &c., I am unable to apprehend. Webster, again, gives
as its etymon the Gothic blauthjan, to stain ; while Richardson, following Home ...
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Word Gossip: A Series of Familiar Essays
on Words and Their ...
How on earth this gives any idea such as we can connect with a blot on a copy, a
blot on one's escutcheon, &c., I am unable to apprehend. Webster, again, gives
as its etymon the Gothic blautl,jan, to stain ; while Richardson, following Horne ...
William Lewery Blackley, 1869
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The word comes (in the late 15th century) from Anglo-Norman French escuchon,
based on Latin scutum 'shield'. blot on one's escutcheon a stain on one's
reputation or character; a figurative phrase recorded from the late 17th century.
Esdras ...
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Thesaurus of English words: so classified and arranged as to ...
Phr. A burning shame ; a crying shame ; the bend sinister ; a badge of infamy ; a
blot on one's escutcheon ; a byword of reproach. To feel disgrace ; to take shame
to one's self ; to hide one's face ; to look foolish ; to hang one's head ; to laugh ...
Peter Mark Roget, Barnas Sears, 1868
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Glossaries Of Americanisms V
A burning shame; a crying shame; the bend sinister; a badge of infamy; a blot on
one's escutcheon; a byword of reproach. To feel disgrace; to take shame to one's
self; to hide one's face; to look foolish; to hang one's head; not to dare to show ...
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel ...
Disfavor, degradation. 3. Dishonor, discredit, disrepute, disesteem, shame,
reproach, ignominy, in famy, opprobrium, obloquy, odium, scandal, blot on one's
escutcheon. Disgrace, v. a. Dishonor, discredit, degrade, debase, tarnish, stain,
sully, ...
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Shakespeare Was Irish!
(See also. http://www.answers.com/topic/at- taint where it quotes as an idiom of
attainder: "a blot on one's escutcheon.") Incidentally on the subject of blots here is
a few lines by Ben Jonson (Timber 1640) on Shakespeare: "I remember, the ...
