blazon

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪzən/

Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).

A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
“...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous”
A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
“The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].”
“We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...”
A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
“He wears their motto on his blade, / Their blazon o'er his towers displayed; [...]”
Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
“Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.”
“Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee five-fold blazon.”

Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).

To describe a coat of arms.
“the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English”
“After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto”
To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
“O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.”
“There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.”
To display conspicuously or publicly.
To shine; to be conspicuous.
To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
“She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.”