gonfalon

Example Sentences

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, be it noted, that a stuffed dead duck had become the gonfalon or banner of the Republicans, and where it swung there the battle was fiercest. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

This is thy banner, thy gonfalon, fair in the front of thy fight.

From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

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

In one quarter alone there was a hasty drawing together of men with frowning brows, and that was where the gonfalon of the Brotherhood of the St. James' was planted.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis