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
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 Andrew Macgeorge
Up to that period flags were, as a rule, small in size, and they usually terminated in points, like the more modern pennon.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
In many of the illuminations of MSS. in the fifteenth century we also find a gold dragon on a red pennon, as one of the ensigns in the French armies.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
