blazon

A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous

A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.

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...

A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.

He wears their motto on his blade, / Their blazon o'er his towers displayed; [...]

Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.

Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.

Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee five-fold blazon.

To describe a coat of arms.

the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English

After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto

To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.

O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.

There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.

To display conspicuously or publicly.

To shine; to be conspicuous.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.