gonfalon
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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
When Baligant beholds his gonfalon fall And Mahum's flag defenseless, in his heart Springs quick the thought, wrong may be on his side And right on Carle's.
From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Léonce Rabillon
The people under their great gonfalon and the standards of the companies, led by the Medici and Rondinelli, stormed one position after another, forcing the defenders to surrender.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
Gonfalonier′, one who bears a gonfalon: the chief magistrate in many Italian cities because of his bearing this flag.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
