oriflamme
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It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme."
From Time Magazine Archive
As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."
From Time Magazine Archive
Speaking before the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Crawford rarely mentioned the Association's oriflamme of "free private enterprise" without interpolating the word "competitive" in lieu of "private."
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His white hands and fuzzy platinum hair gleaming like an oriflamme, he led the youths through a spirited charge on Bach.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her eyes were wide, and bluer than any deepest summer sea; her face aflame; her hair of purest gold—and upon her shoulder a challenging oriflamme of scarlet, staining a rent in the faded calico.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
