gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps it was with new spirit and new tenderness that they sang,–– “No pause, nor rest, save where the streams That feed the Kansas run, Save where the pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun!”

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

The title of “gonfalonier,” the bearer of the gonfalon, was in the middle ages both military and civil.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

The gonfalon might flutter, and the knight, with all his train, ride stately amidst the white range of tents; the archer might lean upon his bow and gaze upon the splendour of the host.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

The tallest and the stoutest of the Border men bore the gonfalon of the Lord of the Tournament.

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield