Emblazon
[ɪm'bleɪz(ə)n;em-] or [ɪm'blezn]
Definition
(v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
(v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Blazon, emblaze, adorn with ensigns armorial.[2]. Deck (with showy ornaments), decorate, adorn, embellish, set off, set out.
Editor: Woodrow
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BLAZON]
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Definition
v.t. to deck in blazing colours: (her.) to blazon or adorn with figures: to depict heraldically.—v.t. Emblaze′ to illuminate.—ns. Emblā′zoner; Emblā′zonment an emblazoning; Emblā′zonry the art of emblazoning or adorning: devices on shields.
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Examples
- The next comer was a gentleman in a shirt emblazoned with pink anchors, who was closely followed by a pale youth with a plated watchguard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Bucket, in the foremost emblazoned carriage, uses his two fat forefingers to hold the lattice a hair's breadth open while he looks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Osborne from Russell Square came in her grand chariot with the flaming hammer-cloth emblazoned with the Leeds arms. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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