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Emblazon

Emblazon \Em*bla"zon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblazoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Emblazoning.] [Pref. em- + blazon. Cf. Emblaze.]

  1. To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

  2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.

    The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair.
    --Prescott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emblazon

"inscribe conspicuously," also "extol," 1590s, from assimilated form of en- (1) + blazon. Related: Emblazoned; emblazoning.

Wiktionary
emblazon

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To adorn with prominent markings. 2 (context transitive English) To inscribe upon. 3 (context transitive heraldry English) To draw (a coat of arms). 4 (context transitive English) To celebrate or extol as with deeds or merit.

WordNet
emblazon
  1. v. decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones" [syn: color, colour]

  2. decorate with heraldic arms [syn: blazon]

Usage examples of "emblazon".

You tracked the bees to their hive and emblazoned your initials the-bee tree.

Foremost of all, emblazoned at the head of every column, loudest shouted by every triumphant disputant, held up as paramount to all other considerations, stretched like an impenetrable shield to protect the weakest advocate of the great cause against the weapons of the adversary, was that omnipotent monosyllable which has been the patrimony of cheats and the currency of dupes from time immemorial,--Facts!

When they reached the doors emblazoned with eights, George hesitated with his hand on the knob.

As I examined the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that is always to be found in the pocket-pouch of a Martian warrior my hand fell upon the emblazoned radium flash torch of the black dator.

Most had their names emblazoned across the backs of their denim jackets: Harlekin, Dick the Hat, Vinny, Freewheeler, Ruin, Kruger.

Indeed, so sensible was Glastonbury of the influence of the early and constant scene of his youth on his imagination, that he was wont to trace his love of heraldry, of which he possessed a remarkable knowledge, to the emblazoned windows that perpetuated the memory and the achievements of many a pious founder.

On came the old graybeard, the First King of Mithril Hall, battering the two with his emblazoned shield, slamming them with the foaming mug standard of the clan he had founded.

The broad cold marble floor, the simple couch, the air freshly waving through a shady chamber, a verse of the Koran emblazoned on the wall, the sight and the sound of falling water, the cold fragrant smoke of the NARGHILE, and a small collection of wives and children in the inner apartments - these, the utmost enjoyments of the grandee, are yet such as to be appreciable by the humblest Mussulman in the empire.

Sitting upon his high throne he was hidden from direct view by a silklike screen emblazoned with the three crossed red swords of the Imperial line.

At a nod he lit it with a Zippo emblazoned with a black panther on a rock.

They were dressed as running footmen, with tight breeches, well-fitting waistcoats, open throats, garters with a silver fringe, laced waistbands, and pretty caps trimmed with silver lace, and a coat of arms emblazoned in gold.

There it burst open and the tricolour of the Dutch Republic streamed out on the southeaster, orange and snowy white and blue, Within moments the other banners and long pennants burst out from the head of the mizzen and the foremast, one emblazoned with the cipher of the VOC, die Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the United East India Company.

Green and gold pennants flew, emblazoned with Elven slogans and runes.

I find so many great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity.

The Skarrians were almost halfway across the glen, close enough for me to make out the stylized black stalkers emblazoned on the huge yellow banners of Gortahork, The Hook of the East.