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

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 Gilfillan, George

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 Disraeli, Isaac

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

And this thought may surely dispose the reader to look with some change of temper upon the gorgeous building 116 and wild blazonry of that shrine of St. Mark’s.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John