{"id":620,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/blazoning\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:28","slug":"blazoning","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/glossary\/blazoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Blazoning** is the formal description of an heraldic design in the precise technical language of heraldry. A blazon names the tinctures, ordinaries and charges of a shield or flag in a fixed order, so that the design can be reconstructed exactly from the words alone. Where a flag carries an heraldic device, its blazon is often the legally authoritative description, with the depicted image being a representation rather than the definition.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The blazon of the Royal Banner of Scotland is &#8216;Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure, within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [tincture](\/glossary\/tincture\/), [charge](\/glossary\/charge\/), [dexter](\/glossary\/dexter\/), [quartered](\/glossary\/quartered\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-620","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}