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

In certain of the Italian cities chief magistrates had the privilege of bearing a gonfalon, and for this reason were known as “gonfaloniere.”

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

The poplars twinkled innumerably, the long Este gonfalon flacked and strained in the wind.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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