oriflamme

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Speaking before the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Crawford rarely mentioned the Association's oriflamme of "free private enterprise" without interpolating the word "competitive" in lieu of "private."

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It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme."

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Before San Francisco's famed Commonwealth Club, where the late President Roosevelt first raised the oriflamme of the New Deal, the Ford Co.'s 28-year-old president went back to old principles.

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His white hands and fuzzy platinum hair gleaming like an oriflamme, he led the youths through a spirited charge on Bach.

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Sew us for shroud round face and name, God's banner of the oriflamme.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various