guidon
Example Sentences
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Typing this now, I stare at a framed dusty unit guidon, the pennant that once flew over that isolated sandbagged base of ours and was gifted to me by my soldiers.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2020
Cavalry flag -- known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape -- had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid just $54 for it.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2010
A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September 1876, at the Battle of Slim Buttes near present-day Reva, S.D.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2010
Walter Newton of Minneapolis, the President's political secretary, seized the Minnesota guidon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quarter moon was not providing much light, so I trained my pen-size flashlight on the guidon.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
