gonfalon
Example Sentences
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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
Raise the gonfalon of the most holy Cross, for with the fragrance of the Cross you shall win peace.
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine
All this is, we see, the ideational gonfalon under which surge the romanticists; but from the evidence at hand it is the banner to which life also bears allegiance.
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
Now, be it noted, that a stuffed dead duck had become the gonfalon or banner of the Republicans, and where it swung there the battle was fiercest.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
In certain of the Italian cities chief magistrates had the privilege of bearing a gonfalon, and for this reason were known as “gonfaloniere.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
