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pennon

noun as in flag

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Then there were pennons floating from the tops of the tents, and sheaves of spears leaning against them.

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Outside the Merchant’s House a trestle table had been set up in the shade and decorated with striped blue-and-white pennons that fluttered at every breath of air.

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Pale red pennons trailed from the ends of a few lances, but many more carried battle-axes and great- swords and shields hacked half to splinters.

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Torch flames fluttered like pennons along the walls, and here and there the odd torch guttered out.

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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