blazonry

American  

[bley-zuhn-ree] / ˈbleɪ zən ri /

noun

1. brilliant decoration or display.

   The wedding had all the blazonry of a coronation.

2. Heraldry.

   1. the act or technique of describing coats of arms.

   2. a coat, or coats, of arms.

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blazonry British  

/ ˈbleɪzənrɪ /

noun

1. the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form

2. heraldic arms collectively

3. colourful or ostentatious display

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Etymology

Origin of blazonry

First recorded in 1615–25; blazon + -ry

Example Sentences

If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Concerning beasts and monsters the heraldry books have many adjectives of blazonry which may be disregarded.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The gilding and painted blazonry on the great hall built by Henry III glowed like huge jewels.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

They gather from all quarters to his wigwam, where they find him seated, no longer covered with black, but adorned with the startling and fantastic blazonry of the war-paint.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

We must further see in the picture of a fourteenth-century battle great blazonry.

From Poitiers by Belloc, Hilaire