guidon

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Typing this now, I stare at a framed dusty unit guidon, the pennant that once flew over that isolated sandbagged base of ours and was gifted to me by my soldiers.

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2020

Cavalry flag -- known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape -- had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid just $54 for it.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2010

A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September 1876, at the Battle of Slim Buttes near present-day Reva, S.D.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2010

Different But Equal Into this vacuum of thought, structuralism has reared its guidon all over the Gallic intellectual landscape.

From Time Magazine Archive

The quarter moon was not providing much light, so I trained my pen-size flashlight on the guidon.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore