blazon

Definition

A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

Etymology

From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).

Example Sentences

• "...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous"
• "The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […]."
• "We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms..."