flag of truce
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.
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But when the flag-of-truce party reached the "Horn o' Plenty" they found not a corsair there!
The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales | Frank R. StocktonHe had a skin of the same color and a white tail, that retreating flag-of-truce so familiar to our overland emigrants.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace KnoxIn fifteen minutes an officer came to take their paroles, and they were escorted to the union lines by a flag-of-truce party.
The Lost Army | Thomas W. KnoxThey sent forward a flag-of-truce, and demanded the instant surrender of the stockade.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field | Thomas W. KnoxThe New York flag-of-truce boat was found lying at the wharf with four hundred prisoners, whom she had not time to deliver.
The Black Phalanx | Joseph T. Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for flag of truce
a white flag indicating the peaceful intent of its bearer or an invitation to an enemy to negotiate
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