blazon
Americanverb (used with object)
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blazons,
present (3rd person singular)
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blazoned,
past participle, past
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blazoning
present participle
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to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim.
The pickets blazoned their grievances on placards.
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to adorn or embellish, especially brilliantly or showily.
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to describe in heraldic terminology.
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to depict (heraldic arms or the like) in proper form and color.
noun
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an escutcheon; coat of arms.
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the heraldic description of armorial bearings.
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conspicuous display.
verb
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(often foll by abroad) to proclaim loudly and publicly
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heraldry to describe (heraldic arms) in proper terms
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to draw and colour (heraldic arms) conventionally
noun
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heraldry a conventional description or depiction of heraldic arms
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any description or recording, esp of good qualities
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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blazonsimple
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blazonssimple
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have blazonedperfect
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has blazonedperfect
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am blazoningprogressive
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are blazoningprogressive
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is blazoningprogressive
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have been blazoningperfect progressive
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has been blazoningperfect progressive
Past
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blazonedsimple
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had blazonedperfect
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was blazoningprogressive
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were blazoningprogressive
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had been blazoningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of blazon
1275–1325; Middle English blaso ( u ) n < Anglo-French, Old French blason buckler, of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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His blazon of light can never - and will never - be diminished, quelled or subdued.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2019
Henry’s blazon is even more traditional than his wife’s; here’s just the part dealing with the escutcheon:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
But every generation agrees that a blazon is worth a thousand pictures, so here’s Markle, blazoning it West-Coast-style:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
The word becomes a blazon for the early Enlightenment.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2014
But he did not seem to know what to do with the shield as he urged his horse forward, and Ser Balon's point struck the blazon square.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
"It blazons itself in these great posters 'shoulder to shoulder' - their banner headline - but there's a lie behind it… shoulder to shoulder it is not!"
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2012
Paul Newman and Ed Begley are excellent, and Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-come-back trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
On tennis porches, the question of the hour was: "Can Tilden add a fifth consecutive year to the string of National championships he blazons across the top of his column in the Philadelphia Public Ledger?"
From Time Magazine Archive
On the side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon."
From Time Magazine Archive
This exciting idea made the King forget his question, and the two young men sat down immediately to draw their own blazons for the magician, so that there should be no mistake about the tinctures.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“The end of an era” blazoned the headline in the daily La Repubblica, arguably the major newspaper that most openly opposed Mr. Berlusconi when he first entered politics in 1994.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Shoppers will also be able to find Perdue whole chickens blazoned with a picture of the beer in stores.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
Surely you’ve seen some name or another blazoned on a public landmark building and wondered to yourself, who are those guys?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
There were Disney characters blazoned on the curtains, the soap, the armoire.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019
Over his armor of plate and mail Ser Richard wore his quilted doublet, blazoned with three death’s-head moths on a field of ash and bone.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But every generation agrees that a blazon is worth a thousand pictures, so here’s Markle, blazoning it West-Coast-style:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hearst's Examiner one day ran 62 inches of testimony, blazoning it high above the progress of the war in Russia, Teheran and Italy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
In quartered Shields the blazoning commences afresh with each quartering.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
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