blazon
pronunciation
How to pronounce blazon in British English:
UK [ˈbleɪzn]
How to pronounce blazon in American English:
US [ˈblezən]
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- Noun:
- the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
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- Verb:
- decorate with heraldic arms
Word Origin
- blazon (n.)
- "coat of arms," late 13c., from Old French blason (12c.) "a shield, blazon," also "collar bone;" common Romanic (compare Spanish blason, Italian blasone, Portuguese brasao, Provençal blezo, the first two said to be French loan-words); of uncertain origin. OED doubts, on grounds of sense, the connection proposed by 19c. French etymologists to Germanic words related to English blaze (n.1).
- blazon (v.)
- 1560s, "to depict or paint (armorial bearings)," from blazon (n.) or else from French blasonner. Earlier as "to set forth decriptively" (1510s); especially "to vaunt or boast" (1530s), in this use probably from or influenced by blaze (v.2).
Example
- 1. This eternal blazon must not beto ears of flesh and blood .
- 2. Combed and wattled gules , and all the rest of the blazon .
- 3. Blazon stone , suppression , we 'll send to the grave .
- 4. Try hard seize position on network , blazon forth redcampus , let communism ideaandbelief take root in network .
- 5. Frequently when they came to a gate or stile they found painted thereon in red or blue letters some text of scripture , and she asked him if he knew who had been at the pains to blazon these announcements .