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
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
"The chances are the custom-house officers will board, and you had best keep your burgee and ensign flying, as then they may not trouble you."
From A Danish Parsonage by John Fulford Vicary
