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

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

From Poitiers by Belloc, Hilaire

With a citizen king, and Jews in the chamber, or upon argent is the truest blazonry, my word for it.”

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various

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

Again the Norman banner floats Triumphant on the citadel of York, Where, circled with the blazonry of arms, Amid his barons, William holds his state.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by Gilfillan, George