emblazonry
Example Sentences
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You must come to-morrow and see my grand emblazonry of the Ratcliffe and Armine coats; I mean it for the gallery.'
From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The green space stretching southward from the castle was covered with tents of all shapes and sizes, many of them brilliant with emblazonry, while from their tops floated rich-colored banners and pennons in profusion.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
The banners of the knights of the garter, and their half drawn swords, were hung in vain emblazonry above the stalls.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And wherever the flag comes, and men behold it, they see in its sacred emblazonry no rampant lion and fierce eagle, but only light, and every fold indicative of liberty.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
After a glance at the old, lumbering State carriage of Bonaparte, with its faded, gilded trappings and armorial emblazonry, we haste away to view something else.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
