Definitions for blazon

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blazon bla·zon

Spelling: [bley-zuh n]

IPA: /ˈbleɪ zən/

Blazon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in blazon (ablnoz).

Definitions for blazon

noun

1. an escutcheon; coat of arms.
2. the heraldic description of armorial bearings.
3. conspicuous display.

verb (used with object)

1. to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; proclaim:
2. to adorn or embellish, especially brilliantly or showily.
3. to describe in heraldic terminology.
4. to depict (heraldic arms or the like) in proper form and color.

Origin of blazon

1275-1325; Middle English blaso(u)n Anglo-French, Old French blason buckler, of obscure origin

Examples for blazon

You wear your blazon of honor on your shoulder; I hide mine in a slave's gown.

He could call to mind no such English blazon, nor did it seem to him that it could possibly be English.

Its coat is spotted of various tinctures as the blazon may state.

I knelt down and tried to decipher the blazon in the moonlight.

The Giraffe figures a few times in blazon under these names.

Sunbeams, or Rays, are borne in blazon, and form an early charge.

If a lion is otherwise depicted it must be mentioned in the blazon.

Represented in blazon as in Nos. 298, 299, and without leaves.

But the youth was not disposed unnecessarily to blazon his princeliness.

John Ferne, author of the blazon of Gentry, died about 1610.