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oriflamme

[awr-uh-flam, or-] / ˈɔr əˌflæm, ˈɒr- /


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

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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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How it pressed forward an oriflamme of joy, through all ranks and peoples; how the world rang with the wonder of it!

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various




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