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blazon verb [ ˈbleɪz(ə)n ]

• display prominently or vividly.
• "they saw their company name blazoned all over the media"
Similar: display, exhibit, show, put on display, draw attention to, present, spread, emblazon, plaster, flaunt, parade, reveal,
• describe or depict (armorial bearings) in a correct heraldic manner.

blazon noun

• a correct description of armorial bearings.
• "the book contains tens of thousands of blazons of arms held by English families"
Origin: Middle English (denoting a shield, later one bearing a heraldic device): from Old French blason ‘shield’, of unknown origin. The sense of the verb has been influenced by blaze3.


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