green flag

noun

(in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.

Green Flag

As he spoke, a body wrapped in white cloth with the green flag of Hamas was carried out of the entrance.

The pro-Gaddafi fighters blasted away at the hotel and raised the green flag of the regime atop a nearby building.

They chose to consider them as Irishmen, and imagined they could induce them to hoist the green flag.

A hint from their moolahs, and the display of the green flag, would rally around it every Mussulman.

The plain is white;—the procession has arrived;—the green flag of Islam is planted near a tree.

Tall grasses and green flag plants grew up through the hedge.

The guard held his whistle to his lips, and had the green flag ready to be unfurled, in his left hand.

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