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blazon

UK/ˈbleɪzən/US/ˈbleɪzən/
verbC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,955 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: blazoned, blazons

To blazon is to display or proclaim something very publicly. Blazon it across the front page, blazoned on the shirt, blazon the news.

It nearly always appears as blazoned across or blazoned on, and it implies large letters and no modesty. The original sense is heraldic: to blazon a coat of arms is to describe it precisely in the technical language of heraldry.

Definitions of blazon

  1. 1verbblazonTo display or proclaim something very publicly.C2

    “The team's name was blazoned across the side of the bus in huge red letters.”

blazon is a displaying.

Where it comes from

Old French blason meant a shield, then the description of the arms on it. The public sense grew from that.

  1. Old French

    blason — shield

  2. Middle English

    blason

  3. English, today

    blazon

Built from

  • blasoun · Middle English — shield

From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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blazon in the wild

  • The verb to blazon means to create such a description.

    Blazon

  • The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag has traditionally had considerable latitude in design, but a verbal blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements.

    Blazon

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the blason family

blazon

blazon — used about once every 159,543 pages · #14,955 · point at the bar for the others