"So we got engaged. The family put up a considerable beef when it was announced, of course, and I don't blame them, because I wasn't everybody's dream girl and they thought Theodore was blotting the what's that thing you blot?"
"The escutcheon?"
"Is that it? Escutcheon sounds to me like some kind of fish."
(from The Purloined Paperweight, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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I had to go look that word up!
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