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

The Penoncel, which was carried by the esquire, was the diminutive of the pennon, being one-half its breadth.

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

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

He had heard things said, a word dropped here and there—mostly by women, and he knew that harsh winds had begun to blow round the young slim tree with the brave green pennon.

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