pennon
Example Sentences
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Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2019
They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was buried as an Esquire with pennon and coat armour 217 and four dozen scutcheons, and all the craft of printers, stationers, and booksellers followed him to his grave.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
A little northward, great yellowish piles of lumber loomed, tier after tier, with big sloops moored beside them, and with one acute red pennon, on one slim mast, blown out bright against the darkening air.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
The Penoncel, which was carried by the esquire, was the diminutive of the pennon, being one-half its breadth.
From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge
