blazon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).
Inflected forms:
form: blazons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blazons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blazoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blazoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blazoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous
gloss: A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...
gloss: A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He wears their motto on his blade, / Their blazon o'er his towers displayed; [...]
gloss: Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee five-fold blazon.
gloss: To describe a coat of arms.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English
After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto
gloss: To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
pos: verb
examples: O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.
There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
18th century, William Cowper, Retirement
In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,
Retires to blazon his own worthless name
gloss: To display conspicuously or publicly.
pos: verb
gloss: To shine; to be conspicuous.
pos: verb
gloss: To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
pos: verb
examples: She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.
Related words: blazonable
blazoned trail
device
emblazon
Derived words: blazonment
blazonry
blazoner
reblazon
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: blasonering
lang: Dutch
word: blazoen
lang: East Frisian Low German
word: blasuun
lang: Finnish
word: vaakunaselitys
lang: Finnish
word: heraldinen selitys
lang: French
word: blason
lang: French
word: blasonnement
lang: German
word: Blasonierung
lang: German
word: Wappenbeschreibung
lang: Italian
word: blasone
lang: Italian
word: blasonatura
lang: Macedonian
word: блазон
roman: blazon
lang: Macedonian
word: блазонирање
roman: blazoniranje
lang: Polish
word: blazonowanie
lang: Romanian
word: blazon
lang: Russian
word: описа́ние герба́
roman: opisánije gerbá
lang: Russian
word: геральди́ческий язы́к
roman: geralʹdíčeskij jazýk
lang: Slovak
word: blazón
lang: Spanish
word: blasón
lang: Swedish
word: blasonering
lang: Swedish
word: vapenbeskrivning