Results for blazon

Definitions of blazon:

part of speech: verb transitive

To make public: to display: to draw or to explain in proper terms, the figures, etc., in armorial bearings.

part of speech: noun

A coat of arms; a description of the figures on coats of arms, banners, etc.; showy display.

part of speech: verb

To portray armorial bearings in their proper colours; to deck; to embellish; to adorn; to make known far and wide.

part of speech: noun

Show; pompous display.

part of speech: noun

The science or rules of coats of arms.

Usage examples for blazon:

• 12. May no marble bestow, The splendour of woe, Which the children of Vanity rear, No fiction of fame, Shall blazon my name, All I ask, all I wish, is a tear. "Fugitive Pieces", George Gordon Noel Byron

• He inquired diligently of the young champion, and all men were ready to tell from whence he came, and of his harness, and of the blazon on his shield. "French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France", Marie de France

• Is it not more like the fall of a glowing star, whose fiery blazon bursts the heavens asunder? "The King of the Dark Chamber", Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)