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 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

I have never touch'd her hand; When the arriere-ban goes through the land, Six basnets under my pennon stand;— Ah! qu'elle est belle La Marguerite.

From A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by Morris, William

The French frequently carried a red pennon, embroidered with a dragon of gold.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony