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

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 Dragon must not be confounded with the usual pennon, or standard of an army, as it was employed in addition to it.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

We learn from the "Siege of Carlaverock" that a pennon hung out by the besieged was the signal for a parley.

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