What is "blazoned"

Usage examples of "blazoned".

The entire population of Le Dennier turned out to see the passing of this cavalcade, and marvelled at the chaise piled high with baggage, at the great berline with his Grace’s arms blazoned on the door, and at the two smaller coaches that followed it.

Cullyn hung his new shield, blazoned with the red lion, up on the wall and decided that he'd unpacked.

Dressed in a new shirt blazoned with red lions, Cullyn sat on the side of his bed and polished his sword by lantern light.

Everywhere writhed the open-jawed dragon of Aberwyn, carved onto the outer gates, displayed on the blue and silver banners hanging from the brochs, sculpted in marble in the center of the fountain, carved again on the doors into the broch, inlaid in blue slate on the floor of the great hall, blazoned on the shirts of every rider and servant, embroidered into the bed hangings and cushions of the luxurious chamber that Jill was going to share with Dannyan.

The name of the estate was blazoned in raised letters above the sculpture: WELTEVREDEN 1790 Well Satisfied was the translation from the Dutch, and Centaine had purchased it from the illustrious Cloete family exactly one year after she had pegged the claims to the H'ani Mine.

Then one morning the coloured postman wheeled his bicycle up the dusty road, burdened by an enormous package wrapped in brown paper and blazoned with stamps and stickers and red sealing-wax.

On the side of each was blazoned a crimson cross, and in letters six feet tall that ran the full length of each truck, the warning: EXPLOSiVES.

Most mountain people did Turning with yet another bow, Mashid led them outside to an animal-drawn sleigh, brightly painted in orange-and-black stripes with the name of their snotel blazoned in huge letters on its sides.

Everywhere writhed the open-jawed dragon of Aberwyn, carved onto the outer gates, displayed on the blue-and-silver banners hanging from the brochs, sculpted in marble in the center of the fountain, carved again on the doors into the broch, inlaid in blue slate on the floor of the great hall, blazoned on the shirts of every rider and servant, embroidered into the bed hangings and cushions of the luxurious chamber that Jill was going to share with Dannyan.

He ticked another item off a list that he had spread out on a Dresden china dinner-plate blazoned with the arms of the Guelphs.

The boat was moving almost directly up-wind and so had not bothered raising her one sail, but from the mast she was flying a large banner of blue silk blazoned with a white insignia, a roundish shape that like the art of the Mahometans did not seem to be a literal depiction of anything in particular, but might have been thrown together by a man who had seen a flower once.

When the speedster slowed down for atmosphere be saw blazoned upon the clouds a welter of one many-times repeated signal.

Second-best or no, the big berlin was imposing, with shining, fleshly varnished sides, scarlet trim, polished brass studs, and the Derrivalle arms blazoned on the door.

Eliste had noted the arms blazoned on the yellow carriage, and now she cudgelled her memory.

For hours thereafter, a steady stream of blazoned carriages crammed to bursting with boxes, hastily stuffed bundles and frazzled silk-clad humanity rolled down the long white-gravel led drive, past knots of jeering citizens, through the gate and out of the royal enclosure.