hatchment

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈhæt͡ʃmənt/

Definition of hatchment

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
    “No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.”
    “Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Street, in which gloomy locality death seems to reign perpetual.”
    “Immediately the Railway Executive received the news, the former London & North Eastern Railway special rolling stock was prepared, including the saloon always used as a hearse coach, which was painted black and decorated each side with hatchments of the Royal Arms.”
    “The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]”

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Etymology

From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement (“adornment”) (related to Italian accismare); not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.

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