Blazon - Wikipedia 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 an accurate image The verb to blazon means to create such a description The visual depiction of a coat of arms or flag has traditionally had considerable latitude in design, but a verbal blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements
Blazon | The Poetry Foundation Blazon: French for “coat-of-arms” or “shield ” A literary blazon (or blason) catalogues the physical attributes of a subject, usually female The device was made popular by Petrarch and used extensively by Elizabethan poets Spenser’s “ Epithalamion ” includes examples of blazon: “Her goodly eyes like sapphires shining bright, Her forehead ivory white …” Blazon compares
Blason - Wikipedia Blason is a form of poetry The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric [1]
A Grammar of Blazonry - Society for Creative Anachronism A blazon needs to be, not just correct, but full and correct: it is not enough to say just "lion" when the lion is dormant In many ways, therefore, blazonry is like a foreign language: it has vocabulary and grammar, both of which contribute to the meaning of a blazon
blazon, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary Blazon is taken strictly for an explication of Armes in apt and significant termes J Guillim, Display of Heraldrie i ii 5 1667 The blazon of the Arms of Great Britain is as follows Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i ii ii 53 1722 A System of Heraldry With the True Art of Blazon, according to the most approved Heralds in
The Language of Blazon - The Heraldry Society The Language of Blazon began its development when the nobility of Europe met in the Holy Land engaged upon the 12th century Crusade Many languages were spoken and even that of the English crusaders of armigerous status derived partially from Norman-French