impresa

plural impresas · alternative imprese · alternative impress

1. governmentA 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.

   1 more example

   […] or to describe Races and Games, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon’d Shields, Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds;

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