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  • Even the notorious "Sonnet du trou du cul" was a cunning pastiche of another poet, a technically irreproachable example of the traditional blason enumerating a lover's charms.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Let me give you the blason on the beautiful breast:

    Blazon of the Ugly Tit « Jahsonic 2008

  • I first mentioned the poetic genre blason here when I posted the Blazon of the Ugly Tit[2] 1535 by Clément [...]

    Blazon of the Ugly Tit « Jahsonic 2008

  • Plaisir Sucré is the easy-form of the famous Cerise sur le gateau Hermé created in 1994 then he was only 24 pour redorer le blason de Fauchon.

    foodbeam » Ma France à manger – 5 things to eat before you die 2006

  • Plaisir Sucré is the easy-form of the famous Cerise sur le gateau Hermé created in 1994 then he was only 24 pour redorer le blason de Fauchon.

    foodbeam » 2006 » August 2006

  • In the end, recouering force, he discoursed in minde this wicked opinion, wherwith foolish and wilfull fleshly louers doe blason and displaye the honour and chastitie of Ladies, when they make their vaunte that there is no woman, be she neuer so chaste, continente, or honest, but in the ende yeldeth, if she be throughly pursued.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Here also ought to be mentioned perhaps, as somewhat akin and reminiscent of like practices among primitive peoples, "the _blason populaire_ (as it is neatly called in French), in which the inhabitants of each district or city are nicely ticketed off and distinguished by means of certain abnormalities of feature or form, or certain mental peculiarities attributed to them" (204.19).

    The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

  • Knights, which still preserves their blason (Order of St. John) and the date of the erection of each house or palace; several of the mosques are former churches.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • He knew and respected the old Duc de Marny, a feeble old man now, almost a dotard whose hitherto spotless _blason_, the young Vicomte, his son, was doing his best to besmirch.

    I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Among the many praises of literature which great men of letters have delivered, there is none, ancient or modern, more perfect than this; some of the sentences have remained ever since the abiding motto and blason of literature itself.

    Latin Literature 1902

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