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flag of truce
noun
- a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
flag of truce
noun
- a white flag indicating the peaceful intent of its bearer or an invitation to an enemy to negotiate
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flag of truce1
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Example Sentences
But when the flag-of-truce party reached the "Horn o' Plenty" they found not a corsair there!
He had a skin of the same color and a white tail, that retreating flag-of-truce so familiar to our overland emigrants.
In fifteen minutes an officer came to take their paroles, and they were escorted to the union lines by a flag-of-truce party.
They sent forward a flag-of-truce, and demanded the instant surrender of the stockade.
The New York flag-of-truce boat was found lying at the wharf with four hundred prisoners, whom she had not time to deliver.
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