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
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
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
In their midst was guarded the royal Dragon, that was the king's own gonfalon.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene
All this is, we see, the ideational gonfalon under which surge the romanticists; but from the evidence at hand it is the banner to which life also bears allegiance.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
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