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 mitre and cross had no more scruple than the knightly pennon to be seen in the forefront of battle.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
We learn from the "Siege of Carlaverock" that a pennon hung out by the besieged was the signal for a parley.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
Soon his sides were covered with little javelins, each having a gaudy pennon on its end waving in the wind.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott
