pennon

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Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019

They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

A little northward, great yellowish piles of lumber loomed, tier after tier, with big sloops moored beside them, and with one acute red pennon, on one slim mast, blown out bright against the darkening air.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The same force might be arrayed by a knight under a pennon, but his accepting a banner bound him to bring out that number at least.

From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew

Each sentry held a staff or long pennon, to the top of which was tied one of the hateful red cloths.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler