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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In some of the Guelf cities, there is "a gonfalonier of justice," to curb the nobility.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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
Mino also has here a monument to Bernardo Giugni, a famous gonfalonier in the time of Cosimo de' Medici, marked by the same distinction, but not quite so memorable.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
From thenceforward there were no magnates among them, but there was added thereto the gonfalonier of justice.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Villani, Giovanni
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
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