emblazonry

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There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

We, who formed part of the emblazonry, could only see the design distorted and confused; here crowded, there scattered, at another place superposed.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various

And wherever the flag comes, and men behold it, they see in its sacred emblazonry no rampant lion and fierce eagle, but only light, and every fold indicative of liberty.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

You must come to-morrow and see my grand emblazonry of the Ratcliffe and Armine coats; I mean it for the gallery.'

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The banners of the knights of the garter, and their half drawn swords, were hung in vain emblazonry above the stalls.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft