emblazonry
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A word that signifies wounded, used in emblazonry to denote an animal wounded by another creature.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
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 significant of liberty.
From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Robert I. Fulton
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
After a glance at the old, lumbering State carriage of Bonaparte, with its faded, gilded trappings and armorial emblazonry, we haste away to view something else.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
Lord Squib's emblazonry was a satire on its owner.
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
