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 Jefferies, Richard

In their midst was guarded the royal Dragon, that was the king's own gonfalon.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

Upon the shoulder of each was the visible cross, in the hands of each a pilgrim's staff by their sides were pilgrims' scrips, and each ship's company sailed under the gonfalon of the Holy Cross.

From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by Ruskin, John

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 Rogers, Samuel