gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

But here there is no gonfalon, no golden chain of office, no velvet doublet, cloak, and rapier, no guards with arquebuss or polished crossbow.

From Hodge and His Masters by Jefferies, Richard

In certain of the Italian cities chief magistrates had the privilege of bearing a gonfalon, and for this reason were known as “gonfaloniere.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

But it was some time yet before I could decipher the image on the gonfalon streaming in the breeze above the Signiory.

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various