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  • adjective Not emblazoned.

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un- +‎ emblazoned

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Examples

  • Maeonian king, and sent to Troy in forbidden weapons, lightly armed with sheathless sword and white unemblazoned shield.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • He spoke; but she, furious and stung with fiery indignation, hands her horse to an attendant, and takes her stand in equal arms on foot and undismayed, with naked sword and shield unemblazoned.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The merchant nodded, and, turning to a great chest, produced the unemblazoned trappings of a slave.

    Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Yet such is England, with all its veneration for titles, that the eyes of the public passed indifferently over the rest of that chronicle of illustrious "whereabouts," to rest with interest, curiosity, speculation, on the unemblazoned name which but a day before had seemed slipped out of date, -- obsolete as that of an actor who figures no more in play-bills.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Yet such is England, with all its veneration for titles, that the eyes of the public passed indifferently over the rest of that chronicle of illustrious "whereabouts," to rest with interest, curiosity, speculation, on the unemblazoned name which but a day before had seemed slipped out of date, -- obsolete as that of an actor who figures no more in play-bills.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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