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; gonfanon
Example Sentences
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The shirt was a gonfalon of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it was some time yet before I could decipher the image on the gonfalon streaming in the breeze above the Signiory.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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)
The tallest and the stoutest of the Border men bore the gonfalon of the Lord of the Tournament.
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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