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 Penoncel, which was carried by the esquire, was the diminutive of the pennon, being one-half its breadth.

From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew

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 LeSueur, William Dawson

An attendant handed him his lance, 128 with its glittering pennon.

From The Joyous Story of Toto by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe