See blazon on Wiktionary
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"name": "ro-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian countable nouns",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
"glosses": [
"blazon"
],
"links": [
[
"blazon",
"blazon#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "blazon"
}
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{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
"path": [
"blazon"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "blazon",
"trace": ""
}
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