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Found two uses in nineteenth century architectural descriptions of medieval churches, both referring to carvings of angels, in the first instance at least bearing the arms of the family associated with the church. Cited those—how many citations does a "nonce word" require? All other instances were dictionary or glossary entries, though some of them are quite old—the OED cites one from the 1650's, but there are a number of others up to and I think later than the Webster's entry. I suspect that the biological term is derived from this use. I saw one use of "scutiferous" in a recent graphic novel, but it was hard to tell whether the literal or biological sense was intended—I think it described some creature, so probably the biological sense. There are more and still older attestations in English for scutifer, a shield-bearer, from which the adjective is derived. P Aculeius (talk) 16:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
