burgee

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Bertarelli's catamaran, sailing under the burgee of the Societe Nautique de Geneve from landlocked Switzerland, is the width of two tennis courts and has a tilting mast that towers 17 storeys high.

From Reuters • Feb. 4, 2010

The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e.,

From Time Magazine Archive

I have a real sorrow to think that I could not fly the commodore's burgee while Sir James was still alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth.

From Time Magazine Archive

He appeared on deck presently with a long blue burgee on which was emblazoned in white letters the single word Maggie.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon