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

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

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 Lea, Henry Charles

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