gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

The gonfalon might flutter, and the knight, with all his train, ride stately amidst the white range of tents; the archer might lean upon his bow and gaze upon the splendour of the host.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

The title of “gonfalonier,” the bearer of the gonfalon, was in the middle ages both military and civil.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

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