gonfalon

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The Gonfalon it flyeth,   Seeming a Flayme in Sky; The Bugel loud yblowen is,   Which sayeth, Doe and dye!

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

For three weeks, the Third-Estate Carroccio, with far-seen Gonfalon, has stood stockstill, flouting the wind; waiting what force would gather round it.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Mademoiselle Gonfalon is indeed a most charming person, and, were she penniless, would still be a prize to any man.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various

They welcomed him with every sort of joy, and hurled the Marzocco and the Gonfalon of Florence into Arno, all to no purpose.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

The people were drawn together under the Gonfalon of justice and the ensigns of the companies of the artisans.

From History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy by Machiavelli, Niccolò