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

It had a tiny altar with four tapers, and a blue-and-white pennon with a device upon it.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

Each sentry held a staff or long pennon, to the top of which was tied one of the hateful red cloths.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler

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)