banderole
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Then upon the highest heap of what had been the tower of Bagdad Count Corti appeared, a black shield on his arm, his bow in one hand, his banderole in the other.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
A giant replica of the Bureau's cap-emblem—the Federal eagle clutching between his talons a banderole bearing the motto, 'Tis More Blessed to Give Than Receive—had been mounted on the center wall, the place of honor.
From The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang
Bannerol, in its main uses the same as banderole, is the term especially applied to the square banners carried at the funerals of great men and placed over the tomb.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Before his time, the soldiers merely wore a banderole over their steel breast-plates and ordinary dresses.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
