oriflamme

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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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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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As London topers know, these lines are the doggerel oriflamme of that immemorial public house, "Finch's in the Strand."

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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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The signal was to be the unfurling of the oriflamme, the sacred banner of France, which had never before been displayed but when battling against infidels.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various