gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is Tara Boom-de-aye the battle-hymn and the theater hat the blazing gonfalon of him who strove with Omnipotence for universal empire?

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

Upon the shoulder of each was the visible cross, in the hands of each a pilgrim's staff by their sides were pilgrims' scrips, and each ship's company sailed under the gonfalon of the Holy Cross.

From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by Ruskin, John

Slowly along the evening sky they went, As on the edge of some vast battlement; Helmet and shield, and spear and gonfalon Streaming a baleful light that was not of the sun!

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

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