flag-bearer

Antetokounmpo, who led the Bucks to their second-ever NBA championship in 2021, represented Greece as their flag-bearer in the Paris Olympic Games this summer.

The phrase "appeal to heaven" literally means that only God can judge the political violence the flag-bearer intends to commit.

Then they marched in procession, accompanied by a band and a flag-bearer whose banner was decorated with a symbolic Irish harp and shamrocks, to hear the bishop speak at noon at St. John the Baptist Church.

Flagboy Giz is a Black Masking Indian — the flag-bearer of the storied Wild Tchoupitoulas tribe — who has risen to prominence in New Orleans by blending traditional Mardi Gras Indian music with hip-hop, with many of his songs assuming characteristics of the city’s bounce subgenre.

A lofty claim, though one befitting a reigning interpreter of this repertoire: Gardiner, 80, a scholarly flag-bearer of the historically informed performance movement for a half-century, has virtually set the standard in Bach’s sacred music.