gonfalon

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In the middle ages, they were called gonfalons, and the heraldry that adorned them was a kind of who's who.

From Time Magazine Archive

Banners and flags and gonfalons suddenly bellied from every cornice, a huge red banner unscrolled along the full length of the Machinery Building, and the canvas slipped from Big Mary’s gold-leaf shoulders.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Chaucer uses the older form, Milton the newer— "Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanc'd, Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

On the drifting hills of morn shone bright The gonfalons of heaven.

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan

And moss veils like banners of a marching host of Titans; pennons and bannerets of the sunset; gonfalons of the Jinn; webs of faery; oriflammes of elfland!

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham