gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this is, we see, the ideational gonfalon under which surge the romanticists; but from the evidence at hand it is the banner to which life also bears allegiance.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

The gonfalon was in action borne close to the person of the commander-in-chief and denoted his position.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

In their midst was guarded the royal Dragon, that was the king's own gonfalon.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

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