Blazer²

Also 4 blasour, 5 -eyr, 5–6 -er. [f. BLAZE v.² + -ER¹.]

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1. One who proclaims or publishes; a ‘trumpeter.’

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c. 1450. Test. Love, I. (1560), 280 b/1. Tho loveden blasours, tho curreiden glosours, the welcomeden flatterers.

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1552. Huloet, Blaser of bruite or fame.

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1617. Hieron, Wks. (1620), II. 354. A blazer of that worth & excellencie which is in God.

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a. 1618. Raleigh, Maxims St., in Rem. (1661), 74. To have their blazers abroad to set out their virtues.

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† 2. A blazoner. Obs.

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1486. Bk. St. Albans, B iv b. The blaseyr shall … blase the colowre sentri.

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1587. Golding, De Mornay, iii. (1617), 37. The first blazer of their Pedegrees.

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