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

An attendant handed him his lance, 128 with its glittering pennon.

From The Joyous Story of Toto by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

There were fourteen who were to adventure forth under Billy's pennon.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

All alike called her their love, each one wore her favour, whether ring or sleeve or pennon, and each cried her name in the tourney.

From Tales from the Old French by Various