hatchment 的定义
Heraldry.
- a square tablet, set diagonally, bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person.
更多hatchment例句
- If the family bore arms, the hatchment, emblazoned with this emblem, was hung upon the door.
- There is the inverted triangular plan, and the shield or hatchment form.
- I refer to the methods of depicting arms upon hatchments, and more particularly to the hatchment of a married woman.
- If for a bachelor the hatchment bears upon a shield his arms, crest, and other appendages, the whole on a black ground.
- It is thus easy to discern from the hatchment the sex, condition and quality, and possibly the name of the deceased.