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
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 | heraldry | Britannica In heraldry, a blazon is the technical term for the verbal description of a coat of arms It details the symbols, colors, and arrangements of imagery, such as crosses or lions, that appear on shields, banners, and armor
Blazon (rhetoric) - Wikipedia The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself
How to Read a Coat of Arms, With Real Blazon Examples A blazon is the formal written description of a coat of arms, using a specialized vocabulary drawn largely from medieval French The College of Arms explains that it is the blazon, not any particular painting, that defines the arms, so the same arms can be drawn correctly in many styles
What is a Blazon? (with pictures) - Language Humanities A blazon is a formal written description of a shield or coat of arms The language used in such descriptions is also known as blazon Blazons follow a very precise formula which allows people to reproduce shields from written descriptions alone, and they can be quite simple, or extremely complex
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