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

On you come, lance and rifle, pennon and feather glistening in the rare morning light, swaying in the wild grace of your peerless horsemanship; nearer, till I mark the very ornament on your leader's shield.

From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles

Soon his sides were covered with little javelins, each having a gaudy pennon on its end waving in the wind.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George

It vanished for a few moments in the tunnel below Oberstein, and then, appearing once more, rolled smoothly onward, the smoke from the gaily-decorated locomotive floating backward like a pennon.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)