blazon

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147.--Campbell The GYRON, a triangular figure, not known in English blazon as a separate charge (except perhaps in the one case of the arms of Mortimer), gives its title to the gyronny field_, which is more commonly found in the Heraldry of the North than of the South.

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  1. transitive verb Heraldry To describe (a coat of arms) in proper terms.
  2. transitive verb Heraldry To paint or depict (a coat of arms) with accurate detail.
  3. transitive verb To adorn or embellish with or as if with a coat of arms: "the stars and moons and suns blazoned on that sacred wall” (G.K. Chesterton).

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  • He was unwilling that Fame should for a moment cease to blazon his name. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon, V4, 1800
  • The service was a choral Eucharist and he wore a cope, a magnificent vestment that shone like a blazon in the candle light. —  Overture to Death - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 08: 1939
  • If you refuse to meet him in combat, I shall blazon your name throughout the state as an impostor His insolent words struck me like a volley of bullets. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • She'd learned that Eddie Liu had adopted that as his blazon in mockery, it was the glyph for Poland , which was where his maternal ancestors had come from. —  Map.html
  • This term, “to blazon,” derived from the German word “_blasen_,” signifying “to blow a blast on a horn” (or, as one eminent German Herald prefers, from the old German word “_blaze_” or “_blasse_,” “a mark” or “sign”), in Heraldry really denotes either to describe any armorial figure, device, or composition in correct heraldic language; or to represent such figure, device, or composition accurately in form, position, arrangement, and colouring. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
 

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  1. Probably from Middle English blasoun, shield, from Old French blason.

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  1. from Middle English blason, blasoun, a shield, = Middle Dutch blasoen, Dutch blazoen, from Old French blason, blazon (= Provencal blezo, blizo = Spanish blason = Portuguese blasão, brasão = Italian blasone), a shield with a coat of arms painted on it, the coat of arms itself (the Provencal and Spanish terms mean also honor, glory, fame); usually referred to Middle High German blāsen, Old High German blāsan, blow, hence sound a trumpet, proclaim, blaze (see blaze); by some to blaze; but the orig. sense ‘shield,’ with other facts, is against such derivation. In Middle English and modern English blaze and blazon are of course associated in thought.
  2. = Middle Dutch blasoenen = German blasoniren, from French blasonner, blazon, = Spanish blasonar, blazon, brag, boast, = Italian blasonare, blazon (Middle Latin blazonare); from the noun. Cf. blaze in similar senses.
 

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