gonfalon
Example Sentences
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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
But here there is no gonfalon, no golden chain of office, no velvet doublet, cloak, and rapier, no guards with arquebuss or polished crossbow.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
Slowly along the evening sky they went, As on the edge of some vast battlement; Helmet and shield, and spear and gonfalon Streaming a baleful light that was not of the sun!
From Poems by Samuel Rogers
The gonfalon might flutter, and the knight, with all his train, ride stately amidst the white range of tents; the archer might lean upon his bow and gaze upon the splendour of the host.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
