emblazonry
Americannoun
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the act or art of emblazoning; heraldic decoration.
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brilliant representation or embellishment.
noun
Etymology
Origin of emblazonry
Example Sentences
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There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
But touching that grave is a Marble Monument, white almost as the very snow, and, in the midst of the emblazonry of death, adorned with the armorial bearings belonging to a family of the high-born.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
This mosaic, when seen by daylight, would no doubt have disclosed to the sight, with much emblazonry and many colours, a gigantic coat-of-arms, in the Florentine fashion.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
We, who formed part of the emblazonry, could only see the design distorted and confused; here crowded, there scattered, at another place superposed.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
A word that signifies wounded, used in emblazonry to denote an animal wounded by another creature.
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
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