gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mounted on strong destriers the bold vassals followed after Hiresgas, wheeling to right or left, as he led, till they pierced to the gonfalon, showing the arms of the king.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

The poplars twinkled innumerably, the long Este gonfalon flacked and strained in the wind.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

In one quarter alone there was a hasty drawing together of men with frowning brows, and that was where the gonfalon of the Brotherhood of the St. James' was planted.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis

The title of “gonfalonier,” the bearer of the gonfalon, was in the middle ages both military and civil.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various