Crossword clues for blazoning
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.
Wiktionary
n. The action of the verb ''to blazon''; the activity of describing heraldic coat of arms. vb. (present participle of blazon English)
Usage examples of "blazoning".
Above the fireplace were rows of heraldic shields with the blazonings of the family and of its alliances, the fatal saltire cross breaking out on each of them.
We were allowed no blazonings, but some of the older men tucked feathers into their hair or streaked their faces with paint to proclaim at least that they were not fighting their first campaign.
Harry saw the bright blazonings of Gwynedd, counted the array of grooms and squires and chamberlains, and knew that the princess had kept her word and come early to the borders, to keep Christmas close to her lord.
The confused blazonings of Parfois, the colours of knighthood and the dun of men-at-arms, danced before Harry's dazzled eyes.
Above the fireplace were rows of heraldic shields with the blazonings of the family and of its alliances, the fatal saltire cross breaking out on each of them.
Rajasta and Cadamiri, their golden mantles and sacred blazonings making a brilliance in the dim room.
Tattered banners still hung among the cobwebs of the ancient roof, the shields of past masters with stately blazonings were carved in stone upon the walls.
The workers here all had the same sign on their tunics, an upright staff with what looked like two snakes coiled arounc it, and she wondered if work emblems replaced clan or family blazonings here.
It is a sort of ceremony peculiar to our family, which each Musgrave for centuries past has gone through on his coming of age—a thing of private interest, and perhaps of some little importance to the archaeologist, like our own blazonings and charges, but of no practical use whatever.
It is a sort of ceremony peculiar to our family, which each Musgrave for centuries past has gone through on his coming of age -- a thing of private interest, and perhaps of some little importance to the archaeologist, like our own blazonings and charges, but of no practical use whatever.