blazon
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His blazon of light can never - and will never - be diminished, quelled or subdued.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2019
If you think there’s a lot more going on in the image than is described in the blazon, you’re right.
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
But every generation agrees that a blazon is worth a thousand pictures, so here’s Markle, blazoning it West-Coast-style:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
The word becomes a blazon for the early Enlightenment.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2014
Clegane's point was turned harmlessly against the golden shield with the lion blazon, while his own hit square.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
"It blazons itself in these great posters 'shoulder to shoulder' - their banner headline - but there's a lie behind it… shoulder to shoulder it is not!"
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2012
Paul Newman and Ed Begley are excellent, and Geraldine Page as an aging cinemama blazons a memorable skidmark on the go-away-and-don't-come-back trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon."
From Time Magazine Archive
On tennis porches, the question of the hour was: "Can Tilden add a fifth consecutive year to the string of National championships he blazons across the top of his column in the Philadelphia Public Ledger?"
From Time Magazine Archive
This exciting idea made the King forget his question, and the two young men sat down immediately to draw their own blazons for the magician, so that there should be no mistake about the tinctures.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“The end of an era” blazoned the headline in the daily La Repubblica, arguably the major newspaper that most openly opposed Mr. Berlusconi when he first entered politics in 1994.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Shoppers will also be able to find Perdue whole chickens blazoned with a picture of the beer in stores.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023
With round, gold-rimmed glasses framing her face and a black T-shirt blazoned with “Black Women Welcomed,” the 36-year-old costumer chastised her union’s muted response to the worldwide protests following Floyd’s death in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
There were Disney characters blazoned on the curtains, the soap, the armoire.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2019
Davos could make out Fury well to the southeast, her sails shimmering golden as they came flown, the crowned stag of Baratheon blazoned on the canvas.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
But every generation agrees that a blazon is worth a thousand pictures, so here’s Markle, blazoning it West-Coast-style:
From Slate ● May 26, 2018
His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hearst's Examiner one day ran 62 inches of testimony, blazoning it high above the progress of the war in Russia, Teheran and Italy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were rough, hard men, whose features, as they leaned over the table and the light played strongly on their faces, blazoning them against a wall of shadow, were stern and rugged enough.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John
