gonfalon
Example Sentences
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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fountain shone, the displayed Graces jetted their crystal store; from every window hung carpets, on every tower a gonfalon, from every church belfry came the riot of bells.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Is Tara Boom-de-aye the battle-hymn and the theater hat the blazing gonfalon of him who strove with Omnipotence for universal empire?
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
That next the royal gonfalon, which stirred By fluttering wind, is borne towards the mount, Which on green field, three pinions of a bird Bears agent, speaks Sir Richard, Warwick's count.
From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose
The gonfalon was in action borne close to the person of the commander-in-chief and denoted his position.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
