gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I don’t know what the pilgrim’s gonfalon is,” said Sandy, sleepily, “but I guess it’s all right.”

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

Down are gone both cap and feather,   Lance and gonfalon are down!

From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard

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

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

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