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noun
Blazon  n.  
1.
A shield. (Obs.)
2.
An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. "Their blazon o'er his towers displayed."
3.
The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.
4.
Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record. "Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company." "Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon."


verb
Blazon  v. t.  (past & past part. blazoned; pres. part. blazoning)  
1.
To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide. "Thyself thou blazon'st." "There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow." "To blazon his own worthless name."
2.
To deck; to embellish; to adorn. "She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form."
3.
(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."


Blazon  v. i.  To shine; to be conspicuous. (R.)





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"Blazon" Quotes from Famous Books



... sound the drums: The yeomen, round the market cross, make clear and ample space, For there behoves him to set up the standard of her grace: And haughtily the trumpets peal, and gaily dance the bells, As slow upon the labouring wind the royal blazon swells. Look how the lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down! So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... false herald that painted your shield: True honor to-day must be sought on the field! Her scutcheon shows white with a blazon of red,— The life-drops of crimson ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... great sigh. "Still you blazon my faults," he said in a tone of mock sadness, and addressing Carmen. "But, like the Church which you persecute, I shall endure. We have been martyred throughout the ages. And we are very patient. ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... with sharp medicines, or corrosives? is not the same equally lawful in the cure of the mind that is in the cure of the body? Some vices, you will say, are so foul that it is better they should be done than spoken. But they that take offence where no name, character, or signature doth blazon them seem to me like affected as women, who if they hear anything ill spoken of the ill of their sex, are presently moved, as if the contumely respected their particular; and on the contrary, when they hear good of good women, conclude that it belongs to them ...
— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson
... unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. Hamlet, ...
— The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10 • Various


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