burgee
Example Sentences
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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
Blase Prague expected to see the fluttering brown burgee of Bethlen's mustache leading another Hungarian Cabinet before long.
From Time Magazine Archive
The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e.,
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
Her steam was up, a velvet-black pitch-pine smoke billowed from her chimneys, and her red-and-white burgee, gleaming upon it, named her the Votaress.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington
