blazonry
Americannoun
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brilliant decoration or display.
The wedding had all the blazonry of a coronation.
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Heraldry.
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the act or technique of describing coats of arms.
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a coat, or coats, of arms.
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noun
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the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
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heraldic arms collectively
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colourful or ostentatious display
Etymology
Origin of blazonry
Example Sentences
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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
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We must further see in the picture of a fourteenth-century battle great blazonry.
From Poitiers by Belloc, Hilaire
To his mental vision these things will conjure pictures—a panorama of rites and ceremonials—of altar and incense, with all the splendid costume and blazonry of the Judean king.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Now, valiant leader of the Rhodian fleet, “Judge what from me the great Alcides' deeds “Of blazonry can claim?
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
At no possible array of a man should I tremble; and blazonry has no power of inflicting wounds, and crests and bell bite not124 without the spear.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois
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