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Meaning of scutcheonless | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Without any scutcheons; unshielded.

not-comparable

Examples

“The residence which Mr. Prodgers shared with several of his fellow-pupils, was situated in a small street lying somewhere between Burton Crescent and Gray's Inn Road, of a modest and unassuming appearance, with a triad of names upon the door-post, surmounted by bell-knobs, and a scutcheonless hole for a latch-key in the door, which bespoke, by its worn and dilated aperture, the late hours kept out of the house by the inmates.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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