Crossword clues for blazon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blazon \Bla"zon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blazoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Blazoning.] [From blazon, n.; confused with 4th blaze: cf. F. blasonner.]
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To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.
Thyself thou blazon'st.
--Shak.There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
--Trumbull.To blazon his own worthless name.
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To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.
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(Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.
The coat of, arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English.
--Addison.
Blazon \Bla"zon\, n. [OE. blason, blasoun, shield, fr. F. blason coat of arms, OF. shield, from the root of AS. bl[ae]se blaze, i. e., luster, splendor, MHG. blas torch See Blaze, n.]
A shield. [Obs.]
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An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
Their blazon o'er his towers displayed.
--Sir W. Scott. The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.
--Peacham.-
Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.
Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
--Collier.Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon.
--Shak.
Blazon \Bla"zon\, v. i. To shine; to be conspicuous. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coat of arms," late 13c., from Old French blason (12c.) "a shield, blazon," also "collar bone;" common Romanic (compare Spanish blason, Italian blasone, Portuguese brasao, Provençal blezo, the first two said to be French loan-words); of uncertain origin. OED doubts, on grounds of sense, the connection proposed by 19c. French etymologists to Germanic words related to English blaze (n.1).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context heraldry English) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms. 2 (context heraldry English) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms. 3 (context heraldry English) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms. 4 Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To describe a coat of arms. 2 To make widely or generally known, to proclaim. 3 To display conspicuously or publicly. 4 To shine; to be conspicuous. 5 To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
WordNet
n. the official symbols of a family, state, etc. [syn: coat of arms, arms, blazonry]
v. decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon]
Wikipedia
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb to blazon means to create such a description. The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag traditionally has considerable latitude in design, while a blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements; thus it can be said that a coat of arms or flag is primarily defined not by a picture but rather by the wording of its blazon (though often flags are in modern usage additionally and more precisely defined using geometrical specifications). Blazon also refers to the specialized language in which a blazon is written, and, as a verb, to the act of writing such a description. This language has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, or rules governing word order, which becomes essential for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms.
Other objects — such as badges, banners, and seals — may also be described in blazon.
The word blazon (referring to a verbal description) is not to be confused with the verb to emblazon, or the noun emblazonment, both of which relate to the graphic representation of a coat of arms or heraldic device.
Usage examples of "blazon".
A rumpled and besmudged young man wearing a Standing Bear blazon upon his torn sleeve, Fredrick of Brevory, trailed the fur trapper, tethered to him by a long leather rope.
He is a classic bearded, pale, skinny hacker, trying to beef himself up by wearing a bulky silk windbreaker blazoned with the logo of one of the big Metaverse amusement parks.
Through infamies unheard of among men: She shall stand shelterless in the broad noon Of public scorn, for acts blazoned abroad, One among which shall be.
Exquisite melodies, limpid and unstrained as the carol of a bird in Spring-time, and as plaintive as the cooing of a turtle-dove seems as natural products of the Scottish Highlands as the gorse which blazons on their hillsides in August.
Since the chapel was stone, it provided fairly good insulation, so he did not pick up the blazon of anger from outside until the door opened and Abel entered with his wife, Kadi, and Willa.
Toed off my Keds, pulled off my socks, unbuckled my sword harness and dropped my shorts on the ground, pulled off my T-shirt with the Device of Aceta blazoned in magic marker, and stood there in my tight, white, Johnny Weismuller briefs.
Their heads wore steel chamfrons, their chests, steel pectorals blazoned with the sun-clasping Eagle.
Christian benevolencethe tranquil heroism of endurance, the blameless purity, the contempt of guilty fame and of honors destructive to the human race, which, had they assumed the proud name of philosophy, would have been blazoned in his brightest words, because they own religion as their principlesink into narrow asceticism.
Ay, and he has saved me, by a very little, and therefore because of the deeds that they have done -- deeds of glory such as our history cannot show the like -- therefore I say that the name of Macumazahn and the name of dead Umslopogaas, ay, and the name of Kara, my servant, who aided him to hold the stair, shall be blazoned in letters of gold above my throne, and shall be glorious for ever while the land endures.
Toronto had prepared a banner, a forty-foot strip of white ripstop nylon with a big red arrow blazoned on it.
Huon, too, was formally clothed, his surcote blazoned azure, bendwise three scallops argent.
Sir Nigel rode his great black war-horse at the head of his archers, dressed in full armor, with Black Simon bearing his banner behind him, while Alleyne at his bridle-arm carried his blazoned shield and his well-steeled ashen spear.
SPIRIT What man is this, whose might thou blazonest so-- Who makes the earth to tremble, shakes old thrones, And turns the plains to wilderness?
But their ploughs and peaches did not suffice to them, and they longed again to be in every mouth, and to have, if to their deeds, then even their omissions blazoned in every paragraph.
If he was, he would see that sphere, blazoned with the sigils of the light, riding straight for his hiding place.