gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gonfalonier′, one who bears a gonfalon: the chief magistrate in many Italian cities because of his bearing this flag.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

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

St. Peter sits enthroned above; Charles and Leo kneel to right and left, in the act of receiving from the Apostle the pallium and the gonfalon, the symbols of their respective offices.

From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)