What is "blazons"

Usage examples of "blazons".

Jill knew they were a lord's riders because their shirts had embroidered blazons, running stags in this case, on the yokes.

Eventually four riders in the local lord's warband, wearing fox blazons on their shirts, came in to drink and chivy the serving lass.

I saw only two blazonsCorbyn's green and tan, and a red shield with a black arrow.

Even Lovyan took a hand and sewed Rhodry's shirts for him, as well as embroidering the blazons on the shirts for her skilled servitors such as the bard.

He looked Rhodry over with a shrewd eye for the blazons on his shirt and the worn spot on his belt where a scabbard should have hung.

Standing in front of him was a young man who looked vaguely familiar - pale hair, pale eyes, and the high cheekbones of a southern man to go with the Cerrmor blazons on his shirt.

I saw only two blazons— Corbyn's green and tan, and a red shield with a black arrow.

On the yokes were the blazons of the red lion, all that he had left of his old life when he'd been heir to the tierynrhyn of Dun Gwerbyn.

Although he was dressed in dirty brown brigga and a much-mended shirt with Glyn's blazons upon it, he stood as straight and walked as vigorously as a young prince.

The blazons on his shirt showed him to be a member of the Black Sword troop.

As the enemies came closer, Maddyn could see that they were carrying a variety of blazons on their shields: the pale blue ground and golden ram of Hendyr to the north, the green wyvern of the Holy City sure enough, and scattered among them—indeed, in the majority as he counted—the red boar of Cantrae.

Except the knowledge of blazons, that enables me to decipher them, I am very ignorant of heraldry -- I, a count of a fresh creation, fabricated in Tuscany by the aid of a commandery of St.

It was one of the League’s rare open exhibitions, and nonmenbers in ordinary dress thronged among the cartoon-colored pavilions, the hedges of bemonstered appliqué banners, and the blazons strung on wire between the trees.

The standards and blazons of the high nobles—the Nine Dukes and three or four others—were displayed in a grand arc facing the lists—an open stretch of greensward, bounded only by the lords’ pavilions and, at the far end, the gilded double throne—half porch swing, half howdah—in which King Bohemond and Queen Leonora would sit.