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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The oriflamme of her red-gold hair shone with a delicious burnish under the shaded electric light.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell