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noun

Blazon n.

1.

A shield. (Obs.)

2.

An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. "Their blazon o'er his towers displayed."

3.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

4.

Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record. "Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company." "Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon."

verb

Blazon v. t. (past & past part. blazoned; pres. part. blazoning)

1.

To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide. "Thyself thou blazon'st." "There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow." "To blazon his own worthless name."

2.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. "She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form."

3.

(Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon. "The coat of, arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English."

Blazon v. i. To shine; to be conspicuous. (R.)

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"Blazon" Quotes from Famous Books

... Gothic of the Renaissance. At the end is a gallery or balcony for the musicians, which on its coved front has a florid coat of arms of foreign heraldry. The shield bears, on a field or, a cherub's head blowing on three lilies—a blazon I have no doubt seen somewhere in my travels, though I cannot recollect where. This scene, I say, is so nearly connected in my brain with the Gagliarda, that scarcely are its first notes sounded ere it presents itself to my eyes with a vividness ...

— The Lost Stradivarius • John Meade Falkner

... forest of well-won laurels in this dozen of names. They form a proud blazon for any corps, and one that might satisfy the most covetous of honour. But of all men in the world, old soldiers are the hardest to content. They are patented grumblers. Napoleon knew it, and christened his vieille garde ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... Critics who have taken large and exhaustive views of mankind and society from club windows in Pall Mall or the Fifth Avenue can only accept for granted the turbulent chivalry that thronged the streets of San Francisco in the gala days of her youth, and must read the blazon of their deeds like the doubtful quarterings of the shield of Amadis de Gaul. The author has been frequently asked if such and such incidents were real,—if he had ever met such and such characters. To this he must return the one answer, ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... may have been. And it is left to the individual to make this great effort; to refuse to be terrified by his greater nature, to refuse to be drawn back by his lesser or more material self. Every individual who accomplishes this is a redeemer of the race. He may not blazon forth his deeds, he may dwell in secret and silence; but it is a fact that he forms a link between man and his divine part; between the known and the unknown; between the stir of the marketplace and the stillness of the snow-capped Himalayas. He has not to go about ...

— Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold • Mabel Collins

... the pomp and pride of old Castille, Blazon the skies with royal Aragon, Beneath Oquendo let old ocean reel. The purple pomp of priestly Rome bring on; And let her censers dusk the dying sun, The thunder of her banners on the breeze Following Sidonia's glorious galleon Deride the sleeping thunder of the seas, ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

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