gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Raise the gonfalon of the most holy Cross, for with the fragrance of the Cross you shall win peace.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

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

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

But it was some time yet before I could decipher the image on the gonfalon streaming in the breeze above the Signiory.

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry