gonfalon

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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

Gonfalonier′, one who bears a gonfalon: the chief magistrate in many Italian cities because of his bearing this flag.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

That next the royal gonfalon, which stirred   By fluttering wind, is borne towards the mount,   Which on green field, three pinions of a bird   Bears agent, speaks Sir Richard, Warwick's count.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

Behind this gonfalon advanced two by two the Brothers of the Consolation.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various