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

He was buried as an Esquire with pennon and coat armour 217 and four dozen scutcheons, and all the craft of printers, stationers, and booksellers followed him to his grave.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Soon his sides were covered with little javelins, each having a gaudy pennon on its end waving in the wind.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

Up to that period flags were, as a rule, small in size, and they usually terminated in points, like the more modern pennon.

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