Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or art of emblazoning.
- noun Colorful or prominent decoration, especially heraldic decoration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or art of emblazoning.
- noun Heraldic decoration, as pictures or figures upon shields, standards, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something
emblazoned ; aheraldic pattern.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can obtain admission to the Bannatine Club, 13 when I propose to throw off an edition, limited according to the rules of that erudite Society, with a facsimile of the manuscript, emblazonry of the family arms surrounded by their quartering, and a handsome disclamation of family pride, with HAEC NOS NOVIMUS ESSE
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Lord of Douglas, who had lately died a prisoner in England; around that escutcheon were placed the smaller shields of his sixteen ancestors, and a deep black shadow was diffused by the whole mass, unless where relieved by the glance of the coronets, or the glimmer of bearings particularly gay in emblazonry.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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The banners of the knights of the garter, and their half drawn swords, were hung in vain emblazonry above the stalls.
The Last Man 2003
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And it would be injurious to spend words in emblazonry of _that_ which, by a spontaneous movement, _both_ sides of the House received with volleying cheers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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And wherever the flag comes, and men behold it, they see in its sacred emblazonry no rampant lion and fierce eagle, but only light, and every fold significant of liberty.
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Halton family who resided at the Manor-House became its spoiler; for, desiring to build himself a house at the foot of the high hill upon which the mansion stands, he pulled down and unroofed part of the fine old structure -- so that the hall, with its proud emblazonry of the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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In quiet but vigilant emblazonry, it seemed to stand apart, like some far back member of the family in whose pride it shared.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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"Shorn of its glass of thousand colourings," and threw the glowing emblazonry of the tinted pane upon the Mosaic pavement of the choir; while the loud and slowly-pealing matin reverberated through the sumptuous church.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 Various
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Earl of Warwick and John Rag, citizen and tailor, London, in which the latter undertakes to execute the emblazonry of the earl's pageant in his situation of ambassador to France.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 Various
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Did it ever agree before, that our banner should be torn down from half the States and territory of the Union, and replaced by a foreign standard, having upon it but one emblazonry -- the divinity and perpetuity of Slavery?
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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