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 extensive [..]

"coat of arms," late 13c., from Old French blason (12c.) "a shield, blazon," also "collar bone;" common Romanic (compare Spanish blason, Italian blasone, Portuguese brasa [..]

1560s, "to depict or paint (armorial bearings)," from blazon (n.) or else from French blasonner. Earlier as "to set forth decriptively" (1510s); especially "to vaunt or boast& [..]

v. To make widely or generally known.

An official description of a coat of arms. Blazons are found in armorials. The term blazon is also used to mean a coat of arms.

(n) the official symbols of a family, state, etc.(v) decorate with heraldic arms

The written description of armorial bearings.

A symbol used by Mamluks in both architecture and decorative arts to denote a certain position or rank. Blazons started as simple shields with a decorative symbol and eventually became more complex. E [..]

an emblem similar to a coat of arms; in Mamluk art a blazon indicates an individual's status in the court hierarchy.

(heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms. * '''1894''', James Parker, ''A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry'': *: ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that [..]

A blazon is a poetic mode where the speaker uses literary devices like metaphor, simile, and hyperbole to describe his or her lover's totally hot bod. Yep.For example, in Thomas Campion's &q [..]