blazon
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His blazon of light can never - and will never - be diminished, quelled or subdued.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2019
Henry’s blazon is even more traditional than his wife’s; here’s just the part dealing with the escutcheon:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
If you think there’s a lot more going on in the image than is described in the blazon, you’re right.
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
The word becomes a blazon for the early Enlightenment.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2014
But he did not seem to know what to do with the shield as he urged his horse forward, and Ser Balon's point struck the blazon square.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
"It blazons itself in these great posters 'shoulder to shoulder' - their banner headline - but there's a lie behind it… shoulder to shoulder it is not!"
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2012
Paul Newman and Ed Begley are excellent, and Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-come-back trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon."
From Time Magazine Archive
On tennis porches, the question of the hour was: "Can Tilden add a fifth consecutive year to the string of National championships he blazons across the top of his column in the Philadelphia Public Ledger?"
From Time Magazine Archive
This exciting idea made the King forget his question, and the two young men sat down immediately to draw their own blazons for the magician, so that there should be no mistake about the tinctures.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Shoppers will also be able to find Perdue whole chickens blazoned with a picture of the beer in stores.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
The Rome newspaper Il Messaggero blazoned a large photograph on its front page: “Goodbye to Carrito, the ‘city’ bear killed by a car,” read the headline.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Surely you’ve seen some name or another blazoned on a public landmark building and wondered to yourself, who are those guys?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
There were Disney characters blazoned on the curtains, the soap, the armoire.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019
The silk rippled in the wind like a living thing; across the fabric was blazoned a night sky slashed with purple lightning.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
But every generation agrees that a blazon is worth a thousand pictures, so here’s Markle, blazoning it West-Coast-style:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
From it Son George built the most successful laundry business in Washington, with 50 gaudy blue-&-gold branch stores on strategic street corners, each blazoning the slogan "Long Live Linen."
From Time Magazine Archive
His native modesty shrinks from blazoning abroad the exact extent of his present wealth, or the exact means by which it was acquired.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
