New word..

David

..I learnt today. So, hands up, without googling, who knows what an escutcheon is?

poxy

It's the metal plate around a key hole, innit?

David

Yep. I didn't know that. Searching on google for a 'lock cover' and then stumbled across its impossibly fancy name. I must read the dictionary more.

Colette

@ david - next word: Finial.

David

Ronaldo's hair style?

Four Eyes

"blot on one's escutcheon"

a stain on one's reputation; disgrace. (courtesy of dictionary.com)

10 points if you can slip that casually into conversation this afternoon...

[Middle English escochon, from Anglo-Norman escuchon, from Vulgar Latin *scūtiō, scūtiōn-, from Latin scūtum, shield; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]

katiejane

Like a Sheila Maid. I knew what I was after, but could I find one? No. Easy when you know what it's called though.

David

_"He's a cod. He's a blot on Football's escutcheon."_ - Eamonn Dunphyism. We have a Sheila's Maid, albeit in a modern type way. We're currently toying with subverting the maid to run vertical down a wall instead of protruding like a shelf. Not sure how this will go though.

tosscat

I thought Martine Escutcheon was great in 'Stenders.

andy

My use of the word 'architrave' had a massive spike shortly after buying our flat, but now almost never gets brought out.