scutcheonless

English

Etymology

scutcheon +‎ -less

Adjective

scutcheonless (not comparable)

1. Without any scutcheons; unshielded.
   • 1844, Albert Richard Smith, The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury and His Friend Jack Johnson:

     The residence which Mr. Prodgers shared with several of his fellow-pupils, was situated in a small street lying somewhere between Burton Crescent and Gray's Inn Road, of a modest and unassuming appearance, with a triad of names upon the door-post, surmounted by bell-knobs, and a scutcheonless hole for a latch-key in the door, which bespoke, by its worn and dilated aperture, the late hours kept out of the house by the inmates.