Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
blaze, blazon (vv.)
To blaze the news abroad is to make it public, to announce it loudly. To blazon the news abroad is also to publish it, to proclaim it. (Blazon comes from the armorial blazon, the heraldic coat of arms, which announces who you are.) Both are old words, infrequently used today, and both sound rather poetic, if not pretentious.
