oriflamme
Example Sentences
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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How it pressed forward an oriflamme of joy, through all ranks and peoples; how the world rang with the wonder of it!
