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
To bear before Him, in its face unfurled, His gonfalon sublime!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
The title of “gonfalonier,” the bearer of the gonfalon, was in the middle ages both military and civil.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
Perhaps it was with new spirit and new tenderness that they sang,–– “No pause, nor rest, save where the streams That feed the Kansas run, Save where the pilgrim gonfalon Shall flout the setting sun!”
From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
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