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

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

An airy structure pitched beneath the tower appeared in the morning surmounted by a red pennon fluttering in the air, and frantic to be free.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward