emblazonment

[ em-bley-zuhn-muhnt ]

noun

1. the act of emblazoning.
2. something that is emblazoned.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emblazonment¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; emblazon + -ment

Example Sentences

Indeed they are seldom, if ever, to be found in heraldic emblazonment.

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Seest thou how the twin plumes straighten on his crest, and his father's own emblazonment already marks him for upper air?

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He was by this time ashamed of the emblazonment of his poetic effort upon the cliff.

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Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars.

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It was the art of heraldic emblazonment which ignored the practical details, that first copied the wing from nature.

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