gonfalonier
Americannoun
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the bearer of a gonfalon.
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a chief magistrate or some other elected official in any of several medieval Italian republics.
noun
Etymology
Origin of gonfalonier
1580–90; < French < Italian gonfaloniere. See gonfalon, -ier 2
Example Sentences
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He sat on the right hand with the gonfalonier in two purple fauteuils.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
The family, which was nineteen times represented in the signoria, and in 1445 gave a gonfalonier to Florence, flourished with the republic and declined with its fall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
The Marquis of Monferrato, a paladin of distinguished prowess, was gone overseas as gonfalonier of the Church in a general array of the Christian forces.
From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
By the end of the 14th century the gonfalonier was the chief of the signiory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Among the many dignities acquired by the Marquis in the course of his singularly chequered life was that of gonfalonier of the Holy Church, conferred upon him by Julius II.—L. and En.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George
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