Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry, the art of describing armorial bearings. See
blazon , n.
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- noun The action of the verb to
blazon ; the activity of describingheraldic coats of arms . - verb Present participle of
blazon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This art will be usefull in blazoning arms on monuments for inscriptions tables of the decalogue over the altars &c as by this method they will be preserved ages from the injuries of the weather. tho at the same time the stone itself will be somewhat hurt or corroded by the Air.
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She came out of the wood of glistening birch, and with the first fires of the sun blazoning her unbound hair raced lightly across the dew-dripping meadow.
CHAPTER 2 2010
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Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavered everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turned in the murk, the rose rolled in its oval abyss.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavers everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turns in the murk.
We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red Ivan R. 2011
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Translucent vase resting in a corner; soft, blazoning rose floating inside — thin blue light wavered everything in the living room — a grainy leaf turned in the murk, the rose rolled in its oval abyss.
Carolina Grüber: I Ivan R. 2011
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We are sailing due westward and the sun, yet two hours high, is blazoning a fiery glory on the sea that spreads and gleams like some broad, jeweled trail, to where the blue and distant shadow-land lifts its carven front aloft, leaving, as it gropes, shades of shadows beyond.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Each one is a perfect, compelling mystery, suitable for hanging in one's household shrine or blazoning across the back of a fine kimono.
Archive 2007-04-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Each one is a perfect, compelling mystery, suitable for hanging in one's household shrine or blazoning across the back of a fine kimono.
The Black Heart Gang's Tale of How Heather McDougal 2007
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He read the glorious blazoning of the firmament! — ay, when sordid moles shall become lynxes.
Quentin Durward 2008
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‘Certainly, I shall not: but you say you are going to tell your sister; and she will tell your brothers when they come home, and Brown immediately, if you do not tell her yourself; and Brown will blazon it, or be the means of blazoning it, throughout the country.’
Agnes Grey 2002
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