blazon
blazon
Definition
bla·zon (blā′zən)
noun
- a coat of arms; heraldic shield, emblem, or banner
- a technical description or illustration of a coat of arms in accordance with the rules of heraldry
- showy display
Etymology: ME blasoun < OFr blason, a shield, blazon
transitive verb
- to make known far and wide; proclaim: often with forth, out, or abroad
- to describe technically or portray (coats of arms)
- to portray in colors
- to adorn colorfully or showily
Etymology: < the n.; mistakenly assoc. with blaze
bla′·zoner noun
bla′·zon·ment noun
blazon
Usage Examples
Object
- arm: The task of blazoning these arms of John Stewart, Lord of Lorne ( 1448 ), can confuse even the experts.
- name: And teachers can find their names blazoned across the newspapers, their careers shattered - and all on the basis of a false accusation.
- idea: Yet ordinary suicide would blazon the very idea he dreaded.
Converse of object
- follow: It is strange that the Thomson arms of the second and third quarters do not follow the blazon.
- give: All blazons given in this book are referenced to the Lyon Register.
Adjective modifier
- heraldic: The Knights Shield displayed an heraldic blazon which identified the Knight.
Modifying Another Word
- abroad: There he was, his photograph blazoned abroad, in all our newspapers.
Preposition: across
- newspaper: And teachers can find their names blazoned across the newspapers, their careers shattered - and all on the basis of a false accusation.
Preposition: of
blazon Quotes
Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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