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

All alike called her their love, each one wore her favour, whether ring or sleeve or pennon, and each cried her name in the tourney.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

It had a tiny altar with four tapers, and a blue-and-white pennon with a device upon it.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

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