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 Macgeorge, Andrew
An airy structure pitched beneath the tower appeared in the morning surmounted by a red pennon fluttering in the air, and frantic to be free.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
Aunt Mollie’s pink feather streamed into the breeze like a pennon of triumph.
From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various
