impresa

Etymology

From Italian impresa.

noun

  1. (heraldry) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate etc.
    1613, John Webster, “A Monumental Column, A Funeral Elegy” in Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henrie, London: William Welbie, My impresa to your lordship; a swan Flying to a laurel for shelter.
    […] or to describe Races and Games, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon’d Shields, 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost/Book_IX), Book 9, lines 33-35

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