- coat of arms: the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
- emblazon: decorate with heraldic arms
- 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 the appropriate image. ...
- A verbal or written description of a coat of arms; A formalized language for describing a coat of arms; : A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms; To describe a coat of arms
- The description, either oral or written, of an armorial banner, set of armorial bearings or a shield from those arms, given according to heraldic conventions – see ‘blazoning’. ...
- The correct term for describing heraldic arms in their armorial bearing.
- technical description of a heraldic insignia
- is the technical description of arms, the nomenclature of which is selectively defined below.
- the textual description of the design and colours (tinctures) of arms which in the early days of heraldry had given rise to an heraldic language or blazon
- The custom in English blazon is to reduce redundancy by only referring to a particular colour once in the blazon.
- proclamation (Twelfth Night)
- (v.) to publish widely; proclaim
- A poetic mode wherein the speaker uses metaphor, simile and hyperbole to describe the parts of his or her lover's body. Examples can be found in Sir Philip Sydney's Astrophil & Stella. William Shakespeare plays with the form in his Sonnet 130. ...