gonfalonier

American  

[gon-fuh-luh-neer] / ˌgɒn fə ləˈnɪər /

noun

1. the bearer of a gonfalon.

2. a chief magistrate or some other elected official in any of several medieval Italian republics.

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gonfalonier British  

/ ˌɡɒnfələˈnɪə /

noun

1. the chief magistrate or other official of a medieval Italian republic, esp the bearer of the republic's gonfalon

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Etymology

Origin of gonfalonier

1580–90; < French < Italian gonfaloniere. See gonfalon, -ier ²

Example Sentences

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

Or who, again, but knows that shortly before Piero Soderini, whom the people of Florence had made gonfalonier for life, was deprived of his office and banished, the palace itself was struck by lightning?

From Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Thomson, Ninian Hill

Then we entered the palace, led by Michael di Lando, who bore the standard of the gonfalonier of justice.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph

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

There were moult and moult clergy, about two dozen dames, that treated one another with illustrissima and brown kisses, the vice-legate, the gonfalonier, and some senate.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter