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As if to point up the gallery-to-street connection, lengths of various new cloths hang free in bannerlike rows from the gallery ceiling and are draped over barrel-like metal stands.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2012

Over the years, Youngerman has consistently enlarged, unloosed and simplified his own bannerlike designs, intensifying the colors until his latest canvases almost seem to palpitate on the wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

There had always been something bright and bannerlike in her aspect, but now her look drooped, and she hung at half-mast, as it were.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

At Nelson’s funeral his banner and standard were borne in the procession, and around his coffin were the banderolls—square, bannerlike flags bearing the various arms of his family lineage.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various