blazonern.
/ˈbleɪzənə/ 1. One who blazons arms; a herald.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > [noun] > painter of coats of arms
blazoner1586
emblazoner1591
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > herald > [noun]
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officer of (also at) armsa1486
blazer1486
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1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie To Innes of Court, sig. Avi Our new conceited Blazonners, which haue borrowed onely their lights at the lamps of two late English Armorists.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. vi. 62 I find the same there commended for faire Armory, and good in regard of the variety thereof for Blazoners to looke vpon.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vair,..the grayish colour of some eyes; also, that which our Blasonners call Verry.
1728 S. Kent Banner Display'd II. 764 Some Blazoners hold..that then such Bearing is more aptly termed Parted per Cross.
1815 Encycl. Brit. X. 399/1 There is a sort which blazoners call assumptive arms.
2. transferred. One who records or sets forth with commendation: one who proclaims or ‘trumpets’.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer
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blazoner1603
speaker1623
proclamator1650
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proclaimant1837
tooter1863
spruiker1893
spieler1894
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 86 If I were a great blazoner of mine owne actions.
1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 37 These historians, recorders, and blazoners of virtues and arms.
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