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▪ I. blazer1|ˈbleɪzə(r)|
[f. blaze v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. Anything which blazes or shines; as a comet (obs.), or (familiarly) a very bright day.
a1635Corbet Poems (1807) Thus we leave the blazers coming over. 1875M. E. Braddon Hostages to Fortune I. iii. 88 The day..a blazer, cloudless blue.
b. A light jacket of bright colour worn at cricket or other sports. Now usu. an unlined jacket of lightweight material (often flannel), freq. with coloured stripes, decorated edges, or a badge on the breast-pocket, worn esp. with sports clothes or as part of a school uniform.
1880Times 19 June, Men in spotless flannel, and club ‘blazers.’ 1885Durham Univ. Jrnl. 21 Feb. 91 The latest novelty..for the river is flannels, a blazer, and spats. 1889Daily News 22 Aug. 6/6 In your article of to-day..you speak of ‘a striped red and black blazer’, ‘the blazer’, also of ‘the pale toned’ ones... A blazer is the red flannel boating jacket worn by the Lady Margaret, St. John's College, Cambridge, Boat Club. When I was at Cambridge it meant that and nothing else. It seems from your article that a blazer now means a coloured flannel jacket, whether for cricket, tennis, boating, or seaside wear. 1892Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 93 More does he wonder still at the city clerk in a blazer. 1963Times 23 Jan. 12/4 A simple short blazer-type jacket. 1964Which? Mar. 94/2 More navy blue blazers are sold than any other colour. Ibid. 96/1 Blazer cloth was not originally intended for hard daily wear, but for more occasional use—sitting in a cricket pavilion, for instance.
2. Someone or something that attracts attention. Chiefly U.S.
1845Mrs. Kirkland Western Clearings (1846) 127 T'other gal is likely enough, but the mother's a blazer! 1892‘H. Lawson’ in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 154 You must prove that you're a blazer—you must prove that you have grit. 1903A. Adams Log Cowboy vi. 81 Are you sure you wasn't running a blazer yourself? 1906Springfield Weekly Republ. 19 Apr. 1 The Kaiser's telegram..recalls some of his blazers in the past.
3. A small cooking apparatus. N. Amer.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1895Harper's Mag. May 885/1 Delicacies which Tom prided himself on being able to prepare on a blazer. 1967Canadian Antiques Collector Apr. 17/1 Cooking can be done in the blazer pan over a direct flame.
4. A sheet of metal placed against the bars of a grate to create a draught and cause the fire to blaze; a blower. north.
1892Heslop Northumb. Words, Bleezer, a hood to blow up a fire. ‘Put the bleezer up, and let's hev a lowe.’ a1922T. Burt Autobiogr. (1924) 177 Women and children..armed with ‘blazers’ and tin-cans..used as cymbals.
▪ II. ˈblazer2
Also 4 blasour, 5 -eyr, 5–6 -er.
[f. blaze v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who proclaims or publishes; a ‘trumpeter.’
c1450Test. Love i. (1560) 280 b/1 Tho loveden blasours, tho curreiden glosours, the welcomeden flatterers. 1552Huloet, Blaser of bruite or fame. 1617Hieron Wks. (1620) II. 354 A blazer of that worth & excellencie which is in God. a1618Raleigh Maxims St. in Rem. (1661) 74 To have their blazers abroad to set out their virtues.
†2. A blazoner. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans B iv b, The blaseyr shall..blase the colowre sentri. 1587Golding De Mornay iii. (1617) 37 The first blazer of their Pedegrees. |