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blazonry

[ bley-zuhn-ree ]

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.


blazonry

/ ˈbleɪzənrɪ /

noun

  1. the art or process of describing heraldic arms in proper form
  2. heraldic arms collectively
  3. colourful or ostentatious display
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blazonry1

First recorded in 1615–25; blazon + -ry
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Example Sentences

By giving this cross a name from the counts of Toulouse, its best-known bearers, some elaborate blazonry is spared.

They gather from all quarters to his wigwam, where they find him seated, no longer covered with black, but adorned with the startling and fantastic blazonry of the war-paint.

The tree-shadows, too, had grown in length, and the afternoon sun wore a deeper blazonry through the hill haze in the west.

The styles of blazonry admit of classification like those of Gothic Architecture.

I missed the Latin, the blazonry, and the sounding detail of public service so often seen spread over every inch of crumbling old tombstones.

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