ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Painted with a heraldic device.
1830. Praed, Poems (1865), I. 176. Far from me is the gazing throng, The blazoned shield, and the nodding plume.
2. transf. and fig. Conspicuously or brilliantly displayed; proclaimed, celebrated, ‘trumpeted.’
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., I. 132. Blazon’d glories spread from zone to zone.
1855. Tennyson, Ode Wellington, 56. Bright let it be with his blazon’d deeds.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, xxviii. 126. There would be a blazoned paragraph in the journals.
