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emblazonment

American  
[em-bley-zuhn-muhnt] / ɛmˈbleɪ zən mənt /

noun

  1. the act of emblazoning.

  2. something that is emblazoned.


Etymology

Origin of emblazonment

First recorded in 1790–1800; emblazon + -ment

Example Sentences

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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

Mrs. Ricketts herself placed in the midst, her fair proportions gracefully disposed in a chair whose embroidery displayed all the quarterings and emblazonment of her family for centuries back.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

This left him free to lend his services to the rest of us, and assist in our heraldic emblazonment.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

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

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