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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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
In 1293 was created the office of gonfalonier of justice, who carried out the orders of the signiory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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
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
He also ordered, that as it had been customary for the gonfalonier to sit upon the right hand of the rectors, he should in future take his seat in the midst of them.
From History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy by Machiavelli, Niccolò
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