gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

That next the royal gonfalon, which stirred   By fluttering wind, is borne towards the mount,   Which on green field, three pinions of a bird   Bears agent, speaks Sir Richard, Warwick's count.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

Then the burghers and nobles—"Cittadini amatori della Patria," Tronci calls them—formed the Campagnia di S. Michele, for it bore on its gonfalon St. Michael Archangel, and the black eagle of the Empire.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

Herman, the lord of Forbes, conducts that band,   And stripes his gonfalon with black and white;   With Errol's earl upon his better hand,   Who on a field of green displays a light.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

The tallest and the stoutest of the Border men bore the gonfalon of the Lord of the Tournament.

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield