answering pennant

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. one of the flags of the International Code of Signals, a pennant of three red and two white vertical stripes, flown at the dip while a message is being interpreted and close up when it is understood.

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Example Sentences

Her orders were carefully obeyed, and before very long the vessel was near enough for us to distinguish her answering pennant.

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An instant later she was leaning back in her seat, smilingly dipping an answering pennant to the frenzied signals of her rapidly approaching swain.

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"She has her answering pennant flying," he exclaimed, letting fall his glass to accost me, and he called to the second mate to haul down our signal.

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There goes our answering pennant.

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He had seen our flags off Benita, but had not troubled to read the message, as he saw the answering pennant flying from the Lighthouse.

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