emblazonment

American  

[em-blay-zuhn-muhnt] / ɛmˈbleɪ zən mənt /

noun

1. the act of emblazoning.

2. something that is emblazoned.

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Etymology

Origin of emblazonment

First recorded in 1790–1800; emblazon + -ment

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Example Sentences

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emblazonment

Or when he signed off on the emblazonment of “I’m the Woman to Blame” across a Tervis tumbler.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2018

Elsewhere Agrippa, with favouring winds and gods, proudly leads on his column; on his brows glitters the prow-girt naval crown, the haughty emblazonment of the war.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Heraldic emblazonment was plentifully strewed over the mantles of the nobility when they assembled on state solemnities.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

For banners, pennons, guidons, cyphers, hatchments, &c., and all other matters where heraldic emblazonment is used in funeral processions, the reader is referred to the Dictionary.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

This led to many awkward results, as when the art of printing is placed by the side of orthography as a subdivision of Logic, to which also is given the art of heraldry or emblazonment.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley

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