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

“Frenetic to be free,” like the pennon, is in this sense the concentration of its meaning.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

The admiral's pennon floated from the Six Friends, the vice-admiral's from the John and Thomas.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson

Aunt Mollie’s pink feather streamed into the breeze like a pennon of triumph.

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various