guidon
Americannoun
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a small flag or streamer carried as a guide, for marking or signaling, or for identification.
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the soldier carrying it.
noun
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a small pennant, used as a marker or standard, esp by cavalry regiments
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the man or vehicle that carries this
Etymology
Origin of guidon
1540–50; < Middle French < Italian guidone, equivalent to guid ( are ) to guide + -one noun suffix
Example Sentences
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Cavalry flag -- known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape -- had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid just $54 for it.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2010
A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September 1876, at the Battle of Slim Buttes near present-day Reva, S.D.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2010
Dating to an era when the museum took in a variety of natural history and historical items, the guidon was sold because it did not fit with the museum's focus on art, Beal said.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2010
Keg-shaped Frank Spina, the Battery D barber who still cuts President Truman's hair whenever the President visits Kansas City, marched in the front rank under the Dizzy D's red silk guidon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The quarter moon was not providing much light, so I trained my pen-size flashlight on the guidon.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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