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

Aunt Mollie’s pink feather streamed into the breeze like a pennon of triumph.

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various

That she had pride was plain enough—the fine pride of courage; the pride of a slim, strong young tree that stands firm in winds that tear and beat, flaunting a brave green pennon.

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

The mitre and cross had no more scruple than the knightly pennon to be seen in the forefront of battle.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles