pennons
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Bright with fluttering pennons, French warships crowded the harbor.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the composer's orchestra�raucous, slapdash and happy�moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ignorant and heedless the Druse horsemen charged the barbed wire . . . pennons and war flags flying .
From Time Magazine Archive
Bearded lancers with gay fluttering pennons trotted in front of his State carriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cloths strained against the scaffolding of barricade and pavilion, and the pennons lay taut on the wind.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
