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

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

She had also a pennon, whereon was represented the Annunciation.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

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