Blazon

Etymology
From blason:.

Noun

 * 1)  A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1)  A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
 * 2) * 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...
 * : A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.

Verb

 * 1)  To describe a coat of arms.
 * 2) * 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
 * After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto

Thesaurus
achievement, adorn, advertise, air, alerion, animal charge, announce, annulet, annunciate, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, array, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bend, bend sinister, billet, blare, blare forth, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon about, blazon forth, blazonry, bordure, brandish, bravura, brilliancy, broad arrow, broadcast, bruit about, cadency mark, canton, celebrate, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, color, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cry, cry out, dandify, dangle, daring, dash, deck, deck out, declaim, decorate, demonstrate, demonstration, device, difference, differencing, display, dizen, doll up, dramatics, dress, dress up, eagle, eclat, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, falcon, false front, fanfaronade, fess, fess point, field, fig out, figure, file, fix up, flair, flanch, flash, flaunt, flaunting, fleur-de-lis, flourish, fret, fur, furbish, fusil, garland, garnish, grace, griffin, gules, gussy up, gyron, hatchment, helmet, herald, herald abroad, heraldic device, histrionics, hold up, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, manifest, manifestation, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, ornament, pageant, pageantry, paint, pale, paly, parade, pean, pheon, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, proclaim, promulgate, publish, purpure, put forth, put forward, quarter, quartering, redecorate, redo, refurbish, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, set off, set out, sham, shield, shout, show, showing-off, smarten, smarten up, sound, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, spread eagle, spruce up, staginess, subordinary, tenne, theatrics, thunder, thunder forth, tincture, titivate, torse, tressure, trick out, trick up, trim, trumpet, trumpet forth, unicorn, vair, vaunt, vert, wave, wreath, yale

Related terms

 * emblazon
 * device