burgee
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Bertarelli's catamaran, sailing under the burgee of the Societe Nautique de Geneve from landlocked Switzerland, is the width of two tennis courts and has a tilting mast that towers 17 storeys high.
From Reuters ● Feb. 4, 2010
I have a real sorrow to think that I could not fly the commodore's burgee while Sir James was still alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last known U. S. slave ship was The Wanderer, built as a yacht, the fastest craft flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blase Prague expected to see the fluttering brown burgee of Bethlen's mustache leading another Hungarian Cabinet before long.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man ambled along without haste, his jaws wagging industriously upon his tobacco, his iron-gray chin whiskers, from the wagging, flapping like a burgee in a breeze.
From The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
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