blazonry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From blazon + -ry.

He drew charcoal sketches of churches, castles, knightly tombs, and heraldic blazonry. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Use these words in sentences of your own: cipher, fostering, imbues, blazonry, satiety, orgy, sprite, arrest, symbol. — Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year, E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
At such times, too, his face flamed with augmented blazonry, as if cannel coal had been heaped on anthracite. — Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Herman Melville

coat of arms, arms, blazon

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