oriflamme

The signal was to be the unfurling of the oriflamme, the sacred banner of France, which had never before been displayed but when battling against infidels.

When the oriflamme is burning, On the starlit Eden shore.

"Press where you see my old hat shine, Amid the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day This tile from Omaha."

I ask no wages, seek no fame: Sew me, for shroud round face and name, God's banner of the oriflamme.

The Spanish and Portuguese pioneers presently showed signs of lassitude, but the northern nations—even more vigorous and audacious—instantly sprang to the front and carried forward the proud oriflamme of white expansion and world-dominion.