hatchment

noun

Etymology: From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement (“adornment”) (related to Italian accismare); not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.

1. A display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall

   “No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.”

   “Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Street, in which gloomy locality death seems to reign perpetual.”