oriflamme
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It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme."
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Before San Francisco's famed Commonwealth Club, where the late President Roosevelt first raised the oriflamme of the New Deal, the Ford Co.'s 28-year-old president went back to old principles.
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As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."
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His white hands and fuzzy platinum hair gleaming like an oriflamme, he led the youths through a spirited charge on Bach.
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The famous oriflamme of St. Denis passed from history in that fatal year of 1415.
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
