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
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
His requiem the fearful tone Of waters falling from their throne In the mid air, his burial shroud The wreathings of thy torrent cloud, His blazonry the rainbow thrown Superbly round thy brow of stone.
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas) Pickard
The gilding and painted blazonry on the great hall built by Henry III glowed like huge jewels.
From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
As a favourite garden flower, the Columbine found its way into heraldic blazonry.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
