BLAZONRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blazonry mean? 

• BLAZONRY (noun)
  The noun BLAZONRY has 1 sense:

1. the official symbols of a family, state, etc.

  Familiarity information: BLAZONRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAZONRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The official symbols of a family, state, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arms; blazon; blazonry; coat of arms

Hypernyms ("blazonry" is a kind of...):

heraldry (emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms)

Meronyms (parts of "blazonry"):

crest ((heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet)

Domain category:

heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blazonry"):

quartering (a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages)

Derivation:

blazon (decorate with heraldic arms)

 Context examples 

He was a short man of great breadth of shoulder, with vizor closed, and no blazonry upon his simple white surcoat or plain black shield.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is much Spanish blazonry also, if I could but read it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And how can you tell that, my Lord Chandos, when he has neither coat-armor, crest, or blazonry?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He turned to seize his weapon, but as he did so his gaze fell upon the blazonry of sir Nigel's shield, and he stood staring, while the fire in his strange green eyes softened into a sly and humorous twinkle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a man of great size, clad in black armor without blazonry or ornament of any kind, for all worldly display was forbidden by the rules of the military brotherhood to which he belonged.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above was a wreath-work of blazonry, extending up to the carved and corniced oaken roof; while on either side stood the high canopied chairs placed for the master of the house and for his most honored guest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You can read blazonry?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He came to me, look you, saying that if I would furnish him with a gallon of ale, wherewith to strengthen himself as he worked, and also the pigments and a board, he would paint for me a noble pied merlin which I might hang along with the blazonry over my door.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)