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 vanished for a few moments in the tunnel below Oberstein, and then, appearing once more, rolled smoothly onward, the smoke from the gaily-decorated locomotive floating backward like a pennon.
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
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 Andrew Macgeorge
The Dragon must not be confounded with the usual pennon, or standard of an army, as it was employed in addition to it.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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