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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Death under Shield

Death in battle.

“Her imagination had been familiarised with wild and bloody events ... and had been trained up to consider an honourable `death under shield' (as that in a field of battle was termed) a desirable termination to the life of a warrior.” —Sir W. Scott:The Betrothed, chap. 6.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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