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 principal varieties of flags borne during the middle ages were the pennon, the banner and the standard.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

The same force might be arrayed by a knight under a pennon, but his accepting a banner bound him to bring out that number at least.

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

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