gonfalon
Americannoun
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a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
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a standard, especially one used by the medieval Italian republics.
noun
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a banner hanging from a crossbar, used esp by certain medieval Italian republics or in ecclesiastical processions
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a battle flag suspended crosswise on a staff, usually having a serrated edge to give the appearance of streamers
Etymology
Origin of gonfalon
1585–95; < Italian gonfalone < Middle French gonfalon, gonfanon < Germanic; see gonfanon
Example Sentences
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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
Now, be it noted, that a stuffed dead duck had become the gonfalon or banner of the Republicans, and where it swung there the battle was fiercest.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
St. Peter sits enthroned above; Charles and Leo kneel to right and left, in the act of receiving from the Apostle the pallium and the gonfalon, the symbols of their respective offices.
From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)
Down are gone both cap and feather, Lance and gonfalon are down!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard
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