blazonry

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If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon, then life itself is a myth and the starry blazonry of the midnight sky is a flaunting lie.

From Time Magazine Archive

I missed the Latin, the blazonry, and the sounding detail of public service so often seen spread over every inch of crumbling old tombstones.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

They gather from all quarters to his wigwam, where they find him seated, no longer covered with black, but adorned with the startling and fantastic blazonry of the war-paint.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

Violets, solid patches of vivid blue in round baskets, eglantine in dainty boxes, provide a foil to the majestic blazonry of the roses and the dew-spangled forest of maiden-hair fern near by.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

The first and last necessity in blazonry is lucidity, which is cheaply gained at the price of a few syllables repeated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various