blazonry
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The art of describing or explaining coats of arms in proper heraldic terms and method.
- noun Emblazonry; decoration in color, as with heraldic devices; brilliant decoration; splendor.
Examples
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Philippe, son of France, take your place on that bed; Philippe, sole king of France, resume the blazonry which is yours!
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The blazonry of the huge escutcheon met and returned the rays with as brilliant a reflection as that lugubrious object was capable of, and the whole apartment looked with
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“I understand one sort of blazonry as well as another,” answered Rouge Sanglier boldly, “but it may be we have not the same terms in Germany which you have here in Flanders.”
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He had destroyed the remnants of the old peel-house, substituting the modern mansion in its place; and while he reserved the hearth of his ancestors, in memory of their hospitality, as also the, pious motto which they had chanced to assume, he failed not to obliterate the worldly and military emblems displayed upon the shield and helmet, together with all their blazonry.
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“You are going to court, Master Tressilian,” said he; “you will please remember that your blazonry must be Argent and Or — no other tinctures will pass current.”
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Over the steep roof at the other side spread on the dark azure of the night this glorious blazonry of the unfathomable Creator.
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He was a man of great size, clad in black armor without blazonry or ornament of any kind, for all worldly display was forbidden by the rules of the military brotherhood to which he belonged.
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Both bearings are founded on what is called canting heraldry, a species of art disowned by the writers on the science, yet universally made use of by those who practise the art of blazonry.
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The innocent rustic life of Poganuc had no pageants, no sights, no shows, except the eternal blazonry of nature; and therefore the people were prepared to be dazzled and delighted with a star cut out of gilt paper.
Note
The word 'blazonry' may come ultimately from an Old Norse word meaning 'to blow'.
