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  • Thumbnail for Blazon
    a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb to blazon...
    31 KB (3,716 words) - 10:34, 12 May 2024
  • Blazon Stone is the sixth album by German heavy metal band Running Wild, released in 1991. According to Rolf Kasparek in an interview to a Brazilian heavy...
    5 KB (346 words) - 01:43, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tincture (heraldry)
    palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry. The need to define, depict, and correctly blazon the various tinctures is one of the most important aspects...
    57 KB (7,068 words) - 04:40, 24 March 2024
  • Demon's Crest (redirect from Demon's Blazon)
    Demon's Crest, known in Japan as Demon's Blazon, is a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment...
    13 KB (1,249 words) - 13:11, 4 May 2024
  • Blason (redirect from Counter-blazon)
    is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat...
    5 KB (712 words) - 00:53, 27 March 2024
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    Heraldry (section Blazon)
    arms as passed on from eldest son to eldest son. Over time several schemes have been used. To "blazon" arms means to describe them using the formal language...
    88 KB (11,154 words) - 07:16, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Seal of the United States
    blazon would have been argent, six pallets gules ... (six red stripes on a white field), but the phrase used was chosen to preserve the reference to the...
    71 KB (6,316 words) - 19:54, 13 May 2024
  • of "or" in blazon, sometimes to prevent repetition of the word "or" in a blazon, or because this substitution was in fashion when the blazon was first...
    5 KB (481 words) - 01:10, 25 February 2024
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    their simpler shield, blazoned as sable, a pile inverted argent. Campion: the phrase billets of the Weld used in the Calendar appears to be a misprint for...
    69 KB (3,450 words) - 21:11, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coat of arms of Scotland
    double border decorated with fleurs-de-lis, all on a gold background. The blazon, or heraldic description, is: Or a lion rampant Gules armed and langued...
    36 KB (3,593 words) - 17:30, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coat of arms of Botswana
    translates to "rain", but also good luck, and is also the name of the nation's currency. This motto also highlights the importance of water to Botswana...
    5 KB (447 words) - 00:51, 15 December 2023
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    affronté (facing the viewer), but the blazon might specify other attitudes. Animals and animal-like creatures are presumed to be shown in profile facing dexter...
    29 KB (3,345 words) - 19:14, 9 April 2024
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    in some areas (such as tourism and healthcare) by the French Community. Blazon: Quartered, the I and IV Wallonia, the II and III Brussels-Capital Region...
    2 KB (143 words) - 16:32, 26 February 2023
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    term equipolle to mean chequy of nine, though mentions that this is identical to a cross quarter-pierced (strangely, this is blazoned as "a Latin square...
    31 KB (3,547 words) - 11:52, 19 September 2023
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    be blazoned in a correct manner; for example "sky proper" might be blazoned simply Azure or bleu celeste, whilst "waves of the sea" might be blazoned correctly...
    2 KB (228 words) - 00:52, 15 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Coat of arms of Nigeria
    Coat of arms of Nigeria Versions Version used from 1960 to 1979 Armiger Federal Republic of Nigeria Adopted 20 May 1960 Crest An eagle displayed Gules...
    6 KB (325 words) - 11:09, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thibaut de Blaison
    Thibaut de Blaison, Blason, or Blazon (died after March 1229) was a Poitevin nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère from a noble family with lands in Blason...
    4 KB (559 words) - 04:53, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Florebo quocumque ferar
    motto of the French East India Company by Louis XIV, and is written on its blazon. The phrase is the motto of Réunion island, a French overseas department...
    3 KB (253 words) - 16:59, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shogun
    called a maku, that exhibited its respective mon or blazon. The application of the term bakufu to the shogun government shows an extremely strong and...
    108 KB (11,073 words) - 20:13, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for England
    featuring three lions, originated with Richard the Lionheart in 1198. It is blazoned as gules, three lions passant guardant or and it provides one of the most...
    225 KB (21,577 words) - 10:03, 23 May 2024
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