different between blazon vs purpure

English

Etymology

Old French blason (“shield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ble?z?n/
• Rhymes: -e?z?n

Noun

blazon (countable and uncountable, plural blazons)

1. (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
   • 1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry:

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

2. (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
   • 1997, Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon:

     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...

3. (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
4. Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
   • 1709, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon several moral subjects

     Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.

Translations

Verb

blazon (third-person singular simple present blazons, present participle blazoning, simple past and past participle blazoned)

1. (transitive) To describe a coat of arms.
   • 10 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 104

     the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English
2. To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, w:Cymbeline, Act VI-III:

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

   • 1774, John Trumbull, An Elegy on the Times

     There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.

   • 18th century, William Cowper, Retirement

     In drawing pictures of forbidden joys,
     Retires to blazon his own worthless name

3. To display conspicuously or publicly.
4. To shine; to be conspicuous.
5. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
   • 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

     She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

Related terms

• blazonable
• device
• emblazon

Translations

Anagrams

• nazbol

Esperanto

Noun

blazon

1. accusative singular of blazo

Romanian

Etymology

From French blason

Noun

blazon n (plural blazoane)

1. blazon

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• (heraldry): pu. or purp. (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Old French purpure (“purple”). Doublet of purple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??pj??/
• IPA^(key): /p??pj??/

Noun

purpure (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.

Translations

Adjective

purpure (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Spanish

Verb

purpure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of purpurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of purpurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of purpurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of purpurar.