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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
emblazon
    v 1: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm
         tones" [syn: color, colour, emblazon]
    2: decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Emblazon \Em*bla"zon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emblazoned; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Emblazoning.] [Pref. em- + blazon. Cf. Emblaze.]
   1. To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See
      Blazon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to
      display pompously; to decorate.
      [1913 Webster]

            The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in
            commemoration of the illustrious pair. --Prescott.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for emblazon:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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