gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

This is thy banner, thy gonfalon, fair in the front of thy fight.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron