blazonry

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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 adore display; it tickles us more to scatter money broadcast in blazonry than to live in chaste democracy and erect monuments to our public good.

From The Day of His Youth by Brown, Alice

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.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

And this thought may surely dispose the reader to look with some change of temper upon the gorgeous building 116 and wild blazonry of that shrine of St. Mark’s.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

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

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony