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

As a favourite garden flower, the Columbine found its way into heraldic blazonry.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

In those murky days of Manila were other things which served to offset the oppressive blazonry of the tropic sun.

From The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. by Mabey, Charles R.

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

At no possible array of a man should I tremble; and blazonry has no power of inflicting wounds, and crests and bell bite not124 without the spear.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois