gonfalon

Example Sentences

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

The company hurtled on, till they drew to the golden eagle which was the gonfalon of the emperor.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

Down are gone both cap and feather,   Lance and gonfalon are down!

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard

Now, be it noted, that a stuffed dead duck had become the gonfalon or banner of the Republicans, and where it swung there the battle was fiercest. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Perhaps it was with new spirit and new tenderness that they sang,–– “No pause, nor rest, save where the streams That feed the Kansas run, Save where the pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun!”

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)