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Definition of Blazonry
1. Noun. The official symbols of a family, state, etc..
Terms within: Crest
Generic synonyms: Heraldry
Specialized synonyms: Quartering
Category relationships: Heraldry
Derivative terms: Blazon, Blazon
Definition of Blazonry
1. n. Same as Blazon, 3.
Definition of Blazonry
1. Noun. Blazon ¹
2. Noun. A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. ¹
3. Noun. An artistic representation or display. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blazonry
1. a great display [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blazonry
Literary usage of Blazonry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of Society in Europe in Its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement; Or by Gilbert Stuart (1792)
"TThe origin of Knight- hood and the 'Judicial Combat, of ^Tournaments and blazonry.
... blazonry ..."
2. Arts, Antiquities, and Chronology of Ancient Egypt: From Observations in 1839 by George Henry Wathen (1843)
"Is it then impossible that our heraldic system is an offshoot of the ancient
hieroglyphic blazonry of names and banners, adapted to European customs and ..."
3. English Verse by Richard Henry Stoddard, William James Linton (1883)
"... rapture's heaven : the That I can not call (Like God) by real name : and what
is this But Music, next the Highest, the highest bliss ? LOVE'S blazonry. ..."
4. Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance by Ellen J. Millington (1858)
"A CERTAIN old writer, in giving rules for correct blazonry, commences with an
observation too valuable to be omitted, and which may indeed be remembered ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"The shields of ancient warriors, and devices upon coins or seals, bear no distant
resemblance to modern blazonry. But the general introduction of such ..."
6. A View of Society in Europe in Its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement; Or by Gilbert Stuart (1792)
"TThe origin of Knight- hood and the 'Judicial Combat, of ^Tournaments and blazonry.
... blazonry ..."
7. Arts, Antiquities, and Chronology of Ancient Egypt: From Observations in 1839 by George Henry Wathen (1843)
"Is it then impossible that our heraldic system is an offshoot of the ancient
hieroglyphic blazonry of names and banners, adapted to European customs and ..."
8. English Verse by Richard Henry Stoddard, William James Linton (1883)
"... rapture's heaven : the That I can not call (Like God) by real name : and what
is this But Music, next the Highest, the highest bliss ? LOVE'S blazonry. ..."
9. Heraldry in History, Poetry, and Romance by Ellen J. Millington (1858)
"A CERTAIN old writer, in giving rules for correct blazonry, commences with an
observation too valuable to be omitted, and which may indeed be remembered ..."
10. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"The shields of ancient warriors, and devices upon coins or seals, bear no distant
resemblance to modern blazonry. But the general introduction of such ..."
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