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Definition of Emblazonry
1. n. The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
Definition of Emblazonry
1. Noun. Something emblazoned; a heraldic pattern. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emblazonry
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emblazonry
Literary usage of Emblazonry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... And gorgon-headed targes, and the wheels Of scythed chariots, and the emblazonry
Of trophies, standards, and armorial beasts, Round which death laugh'd, ..."
2. Publications by Manx Society, English Historical Society, Stair Society (1869)
"... it must therefore be looked upon more as a device or banner of some island
chieftain or king, than as a heraldic shield or emblazonry of arms. ..."
3. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (1909)
"A gaudy emblazonry, not good for much,—except, indeed, as it too may turn to money.
To Scott it was a profitable pleasing superfluity, no necessary of life. ..."
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