pennon
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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
The Dragon must not be confounded with the usual pennon, or standard of an army, as it was employed in addition to it.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
Penn′oncelle, a small flag like a pennon; Penn′oncier, a knight-bachelor.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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