|Azure, on a bend sinister counter embattled argent a bonnacon
passant gules, a bordure wavy Or.| In heraldry, a blazon is a
formal description of a coat of arms from which the reader can
reconstruct the appropriate image. The visual depiction of a
coat of arms traditionally has considerable latitude in design,
while a blazon specifies the essentially distinctive elements;
thus it can be said that a coat of arms is primarily defined not
by a picture but rather by the wording of its blazon. Blazon
also refers to the specialized language in which a blazon is
written, and, as a verb, to the act of writing such a
description. This language has its own vocabulary, grammar and
syntax, or rules governing word order, which becomes essential
for comprehension when blazoning a complex coat of arms. The
blazon of armorials follows a rigid formula. Every blazon of a
coat of arms begins by describing the field (background). In a
majority of cases this is a single tincture; e.g. Azure (blue).
If the field is complex, the v