Middle English Dictionary Entry
blāsǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | blāsǒun n. Also blasen. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A shield (normally bearing a coat of arms); (b) a coat of arms, armorial bearings.
Associated quotations
a
- (1278) R.Tournament in Archaeol.17304 : Item ij Crest & j Blazoun.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3572 : Þat kud kniȝt..bereth in his blasoun..a wel huge werwolf wonderli depeinted.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)828 : Þer hiȝed innoghe..þe hende to seruen; His bronde & his blasoun boþe þay token.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1860 : Blasons..and blankes they hewen.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)5770 : In hys blasoun [Add 31042: schelde]..Was jpayntyd a serpent.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4852 : A blason as a berne-dure, þat all þe body schildis.
b
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.179 : A ful bolde bacheler, I knewe hym by his blasen.
- (1461) Grant Arms in Hrl.Soc.77 (Add 14295)192 : The which blason I, the foresayd Gwyon Kinge of Armes, witnesse not then borne of any other person..within the Realme of England.