blazonry
Example Sentences
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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
The blazonry of the shield cannot be identified with any particular state or locality.
From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell
Again the Norman banner floats Triumphant on the citadel of York, Where, circled with the blazonry of arms, Amid his barons, William holds his state.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan
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 Francis Parkman
With a citizen king, and Jews in the chamber, or upon argent is the truest blazonry, my word for it.”
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
