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
Penn′oncelle, a small flag like a pennon; Penn′oncier, a knight-bachelor.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The Penoncel, which was carried by the esquire, was the diminutive of the pennon, being one-half its breadth.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew
The principal varieties of flags borne during the middle ages were the pennon, the banner and the standard.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
