emblazon

UK/ɪmˈbleɪzən/US/ɪmˈbleɪzən/

verbC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — blazon sits at #14,955Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: emblazoned, emblazons

To emblazon is to display a design boldly on something. Emblazoned on the shield, emblazon the name, emblazoned across the front.

It is nearly always passive, and the boldness is essential, since something emblazoned is meant to be seen from a distance. It comes from heraldry, where to emblazon a shield was to set out its arms in colour.

Definitions of emblazon

1verbemblazonTo display a design boldly on something.C1
“The club's crest is emblazoned on the front of every shirt.”

emblazon is a displaying.

Where it comes from

En- plus blazon, from Old French blason, a shield.

Old French
blason — shield
English, today
emblazon

From en + blazon, from Old French blason (“shield”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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