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
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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions
In many of the illuminations of MSS. in the fifteenth century we also find a gold dragon on a red pennon, as one of the ensigns in the French armies.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
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 Henry Charles Lea
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