gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 poplars twinkled innumerably, the long Este gonfalon flacked and strained in the wind.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The gonfalon, or great banner of the city, was displayed with the utmost pomp.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

All this is, we see, the ideational gonfalon under which surge the romanticists; but from the evidence at hand it is the banner to which life also bears allegiance.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch