emblazonment

• “They were 16 and 14 respectively, so they have a lifelong love affair with emblazonment.”

  The Guardian: Tattoos: Eyecatching – but are they art?

• “Those who had before frequented them did not discontinue their visits, and those who were ignorant of such places and seeking them, on seeing the emblazonment by the doors, cried out -- that is just what we wanted, and turned in.”

  A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father

• “And shall I count it unworthy to pass these few in-door hours of rain in the emblazonment of their titles?”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864

• “Seest thou how the twin plumes straighten on his crest, and his father's own emblazonment already marks him for upper air?”

  The Aeneid of Virgil

• “Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.”

  The Aeneid of Virgil

• “So it was that his more or less casual lark visibly took on, from the perspective of this castle in Luristan, as he unrolled a gaudy emblazonment of eagles at the top of the parchment, a new and curious color.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars.”

  Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest

• “Christmas is the friendly human announcement of this ghostly truth; its holly and boar's-head are but a rough-and-tumble emblazonment of that mystic gospel of -- The Three Words; the Gospel of the Unseen Love.”

  Vanishing Roads and Other Essays

• “This led to many awkward results, as when the art of printing is placed by the side of orthography as a subdivision of Logic, to which also is given the art of heraldry or emblazonment.”

  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists

• “It seems that an emblazonment fluctuates from their waters, and writhing above the crags which imprison them drifts athwart a sky sometimes a little chill -- Leonardo's pensive sky of shadowed amethyst -- again of a flushed blue, whereupon float great clouds, silken and ruddy, as in the backgrounds of Veronese's pictures.”

  Saint Augustin

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