gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

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

Herman, the lord of Forbes, conducts that band,   And stripes his gonfalon with black and white;   With Errol's earl upon his better hand,   Who on a field of green displays a light.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

The fountain shone, the displayed Graces jetted their crystal store; from every window hung carpets, on every tower a gonfalon, from every church belfry came the riot of bells.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry