pennon

Example Sentences

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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

But in early times no knight displayed a pennon who had not followers to defend it—the mounting of this ensign being a matter of privilege, not of obligation.

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

As for the American standard, it does not exist, save as a vacillating pennon.

From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

The admiral's pennon floated from the Six Friends, the vice-admiral's from the John and Thomas.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson