ensign
noun
a flag or banner, as a military or naval standard used to indicate nationality.
ensigncy
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a word derived from
ensign.
Example Sentences
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And yet a poor ensigncy is refused one of his sons.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
His assistance in a political contest was rewarded by the offer of an ensigncy for one of his sons, in a regiment then raising in Ireland, and this offer was too good to be refused.
From The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat
A small sum given him as the pay of an inland ensigncy, now conferred on him, but antedated, sufficed to defray the expenses of the voyage.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
One says, you may have that thing at Pernambuco, and then another says, 'Very well, there 's an ensigncy in the Fifty-ninth.'
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
I was promised a halbert, too, and afterwards, perhaps, an ensigncy, if I distinguished myself; but Fate did not intend that I should remain long an English soldier: as shall appear presently.
From Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
