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  2. Escutcheon (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    In heraldry, an escutcheon (/ ɪ ˈ s k ʌ tʃ ən /) is a shield that forms the main or focal element in an achievement of arms. The word can be used in two related senses. In the first sense, an escutcheon is the shield upon which a coat of arms is displayed. In the second sense, an escutcheon can itself be a charge within a coat of arms.

  3. Women in heraldry - Wikipedia

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    (September 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Dutch article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy ...

  4. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  5. Impalement (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    Impalement in heraldry: on the dexter side of the escutcheon, the position of greatest honour, are placed the arms of the husband (baron), with the paternal arms of the wife (femme) on the sinister. Impalement is a heraldic practice in which two coats of arms are combined in one shield to denote a union.

  6. Escutcheon - Wikipedia

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    Escutcheon may refer to: Escutcheon (heraldry), a shield or shield-shaped emblem, displaying a coat of arms; Escutcheon (furniture), a metal plate that surrounds a keyhole or lock cylinder on a door (in medicine) the distribution of pubic hair (in archaeology) decorated discs supporting the handles on hanging bowls

  7. Aurat (word) - Wikipedia

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    In Persian and Kurdish as well as Urdu, the word 'awrat (Persian: عورت) derived from the Arabic 'awrah, has been used widely to mean "woman". Consulting Mohammad Moin's dictionary of Persian, 'awrah has two meanings: Nakedness; Young woman [17] The meaning in other derivatives ranges from "blind in one eye" to "false or artificial", among ...

  8. Sehra (headdress) - Wikipedia

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    Typically the groom's sisters, female cousins, Bhabhi or sister-in-law are the essential performers of Sehra Bandi. In the case of multiple sisters or female relatives, each woman takes a turn to perform the ritual one by one. While carrying out this whole custom, all the women sing traditional wedding songs.

  9. Dupatta - Wikipedia

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    Dancing woman wearing dupatta, detail from Kalpa Sutra manuscript, c.1300s. Early evidence of the dupatta can be traced to the Indus valley civilization, where the sculpture of a priest-king whose left shoulder is covered with some kind of a shawl-like scarf suggests that the use of the dupatta dates back to this early Indic culture.