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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blazon \Bla"zon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blazoned}; p. pr & vb
n. {Blazoning}.] [From blazon, n.; confused with 4th blaze:
cf F. blasonner.]
1. To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously;
to publish or make public far and wide.
Thyself thou blazon'st. --Shak.
There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
--Trumbull.
To blazon his own worthless name --Cowper.
2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form
--Garth.
3. (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of
heraldic devices); also to delineate (armorial bearings);
to emblazon.
The coat of arms, which I am not herald enough to
blazon into English. --Addison.
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