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

Her dress, her banner and pennon, were inquired about.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

As for the American standard, it does not exist, save as a vacillating pennon.

From Dorothy and other Italian Stories by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

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