Blason

This article is about a form of poetry. For the term used in heraldry, see Blazon. For other uses, see Blason (disambiguation).

Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric.[1]

  1. ^ "Blazoens of the Flemish chambers of rhetoric". In the anonymous "Vlaerdings Redenrijck-bergh" published in Amsterdam in 1617 and now available online through the DBNL.