blazonry
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The last detail to be noted in medieval marshalling is the introduction into the shield of another surmounting shield called by old armorists the “innerscocheon” and by modern blazoners the “inescutcheon.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
These historians, recorders, and blazoners of virtues and arms, differ wholly from that other description of historians, who never assign any act of politicians to a good motive.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund
Where there are charges both upon and beside a bend, fesse or the like, a curious inversion is used by pedantic blazoners.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
These historians, recorders, and blazoners of virtues and arms differ wholly from that other description of historians who never assign any act of politicians to a good motive.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
