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hatchment

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hatch·ment  (hchmnt)
n. Heraldry
A panel bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person.
[Alteration of hachement, achiment, from achievement, escutcheon.]
hatchment [ˈhætʃmənt]
n
(History / Heraldry) Heraldry a diamond-shaped tablet displaying the coat of arms of a dead person Also called achievement
[changed from achievement]


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There was a christening party at the largest coffin-maker's and a funeral hatchment had stopped some great improvements in the bravest mansion.
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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.
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The house so drearily out of repair, the occasional bow-window, the stuccoed house, the newly-fronted house, the corner house with nothing but angular rooms, the house with the blinds always down, the house with the hatchment always up, the house where the collector has called for one quarter of an Idea, and found nobody at home--who has not dined with these?
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