impresa

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Noun

impresa (plural impresas)

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.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, lines 33-35,^{[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IX]}

     […] or to describe Races and Games,

     Or tilting Furniture, emblazon’d Shields,

     Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds;

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