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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blazon.
  • adjective Adorned with a blazon.

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Examples

  • It has a simple design, the title blazoned in large white letters across a photograph, the subtitle A Portrait of the New India in the proof copy; Life in the New India in the finished version proclaimed in smaller letters below.

    The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb – review 2011

  • I wished I could say Mommy out loud, but I was too embarassed, even though it wasn’t really my mommy that I wanted when the word blazoned itself across my mind; for me it was simply a primal term for love.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • Ms. Harrison has hit upon something more biblically abhorrent even than incest: She's discovered brotherly betrayal, an archetypal transgression intimately associated with the word blazoned on the cover of this novel.

    A Novel of Brotherly Betrayal, By a Sexpert on Family Matters 2005

  • Ms. Harrison has hit upon something more biblically abhorrent even than incest: She's discovered brotherly betrayal, an archetypal transgression intimately associated with the word blazoned on the cover of this novel.

    A Novel of Brotherly Betrayal, By a Sexpert on Family Matters 2005

  • The silver comet of his calling blazoned his left breast.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • Poplar was seeing his name blazoned across the cover and title page of every scientific journal in the world.

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Poplar was seeing his name blazoned across the cover and title page of every scientific journal in the world.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Poplar was seeing his name blazoned across the cover and title page of every scientific journal in the world.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • He deserves to have his name blazoned here as a warning, but I shall not mention it, merely contenting myself by saying that he was formerly a United States senator, was at that time

    The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

  • True charity is modest, and Colonel Dumont did not desire to see his name blazoned forth to the world for doing that which he honestly and religiously deemed his duty.

    Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

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