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
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
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 Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
He was buried as an Esquire with pennon and coat armour 217 and four dozen scutcheons, and all the craft of printers, stationers, and booksellers followed him to his grave.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
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