emblazonry

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We, who formed part of the emblazonry, could only see the design distorted and confused; here crowded, there scattered, at another place superposed.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various

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 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

So transparent was the air, washed by the fog and vivified by the sun, that I could decipher the color pattern of his shield emblazonry: a checkerboard of red and black.

From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton

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 Smith, J. J.