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

The same force might be arrayed by a knight under a pennon, but his accepting a banner bound him to bring out that number at least.

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

The French frequently carried a red pennon, embroidered with a dragon of gold.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

An attendant handed him his lance, 128 with its glittering pennon.

From The Joyous Story of Toto by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe