Blazon - Wikipedia In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image The verb to blazon means to create such a description
A Grammar of Blazonry - Society for Creative Anachronism A blazon needs to be, not just correct, but full and correct: it is not enough to say just "lion" when the lion is dormant In many ways, therefore, blazonry is like a foreign language: it has vocabulary and grammar, both of which contribute to the meaning of a blazon
Blazon | The Poetry Foundation Blazon: French for “coat-of-arms” or “shield ” A literary blazon (or blason) catalogues the physical attributes of a subject, usually female The device was made popular by Petrarch and used extensively by Elizabethan poets
Blazon - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline blazon (n ) "armorial bearings, coat of arms," late 13c , from Old French blason (12c ) "a shield, blazon," also "collar bone;" a common Romanic word (compare Spanish blason, Italian blasone, Portuguese brasao, Provençal blezo, the first two said to be French loan-words) but one of uncertain origin
blazon - Wiktionary, the free dictionary blazon (third-person singular simple present blazons, present participle blazoning, simple past and past participle blazoned) (transitive) To describe a coat of arms
Heraldry Creation Tools | DrawShield Blazonry is a special language, part English, part French, used to precisely describe the colours, shapes and objects that appear on a heraldic shield There are several places to get help and information about DrawShield and the art of blazonry