gonfalon

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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When Baligant beholds his gonfalon fall And Mahum's flag defenseless, in his heart Springs quick the thought, wrong may be on his side And right on Carle's.

From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Rabillon, Léonce

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

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