oriflamme

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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.

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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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As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."

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Before San Francisco's famed Commonwealth Club, where the late President Roosevelt first raised the oriflamme of the New Deal, the Ford Co.'s 28-year-old president went back to old principles.

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"Press where you see my old hat shine, Amid the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day This tile from Omaha."

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles