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
Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, rescuer-hero of the Titanic disaster,* flew his newly-acquired Commodore's burgee from the mainmast as the Cunard flagship Berengaria entered New York harbor.
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
Blase Prague expected to see the fluttering brown burgee of Bethlen's mustache leading another Hungarian Cabinet before long.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Yes, my dear Squaretoes; but we don’t call a burgee a flag aboard ships.”
From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by John B. Greene
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