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
Once, when out of the reach of any work of reference, he was completely at fault for the blazonry of a particular banner, used five hundred years ago.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
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
Once the potent cardinal, irritated at the free language of the Commons, to awe the House, came down in person, amid the blazonry of all the insignia of his multiform state.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
There is ancient authority for the nice blazonry which sometimes gives a separate colour to the tongue and claws of the lion, but even this may be set aside.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
