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Flaunt vs Blazon - What's the difference?

flaunt | blazon | Synonyms |

Flaunt is a synonym of blazon.


In lang=en terms the difference between flaunt and blazon

is that flaunt is to parade, display with ostentation while blazon is to describe a coat of arms.

As verbs the difference between flaunt and blazon

is that flaunt is (obsolete) to wave or flutter smartly in the wind while blazon is to describe a coat of arms.

As a noun blazon is

(heraldry) a verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

flaunt

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
  • To parade, display with ostentation.
    • She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
  • (intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
  • * 1856 , ,
    • [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
  • * 1897 , ,
    • … and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.

    Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with flout.

    blazon

    English

    (wikipedia blazon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
  • * 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
  • (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
  • * 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...
  • (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Their blazon o'er his towers displayed.
  • Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
  • * Collier
    • Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee fivefold blazon .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To describe a coat of arms.
  • * Addison
    • the coat of arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English
  • * 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
  • To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
  • * Shakespeare, , Act VI-III:
    • O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st / in these two princely boys.
  • * Trumbull
    • There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.
  • * Cowper
    • to blazon his own worthless name
  • To display conspicuously or publicly.
  • To shine; to be conspicuous.
  • To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
  • * Garth
    • She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

    Related terms

    * emblazon * device ----