oriflamme
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The document says the student got to sit onstage for the show, and a photo of someone in a rabbit suit appears in the 1971 F&M; Oriflamme yearbook.
From Washington Times • Jul. 4, 2015
And the Oriflamme caged in Prag:—Have at the Oriflamme!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas
Oriflamme, or′i-flam, n. a little banner of red silk split into many points, borne on a gilt staff—the ancient royal standard of France.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
As to his once "Kingdom of Bohemia," it has already plunged; nay, the Army of the Oriflamme is itself near plunging, in spite of that Pharsalia of a Sahay!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Carlyle, Thomas
The King had received the celebrated standard, the Oriflamme, with much solemnity: and war had been declared by unfurling that consecrated ensign.
From Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth by Tyler, James Endell
