pennon

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Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019

They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Penn′oncelle, a small flag like a pennon; Penn′oncier, a knight-bachelor.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The Penoncel, which was carried by the esquire, was the diminutive of the pennon, being one-half its breadth.

From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew

“Frenetic to be free,” like the pennon, is in this sense the concentration of its meaning.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward