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

That she had pride was plain enough—the fine pride of courage; the pride of a slim, strong young tree that stands firm in winds that tear and beat, flaunting a brave green pennon.

From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia

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

Up to that period flags were, as a rule, small in size, and they usually terminated in points, like the more modern pennon.

From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew