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
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 William Dawson LeSueur
His brother John, who won his spurs under my pennon when but a boy, soon got me speech of him; and you are to go with me at once to his presence, pretty maid.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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
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