gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The company hurtled on, till they drew to the golden eagle which was the gonfalon of the emperor.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

The people under their great gonfalon and the standards of the companies, led by the Medici and Rondinelli, stormed one position after another, forcing the defenders to surrender.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.

Perhaps it was with new spirit and new tenderness that they sang,–– “No pause, nor rest, save where the streams That feed the Kansas run, Save where the pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun!”

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)