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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Typing this now, I stare at a framed dusty unit guidon, the pennant that once flew over that isolated sandbagged base of ours and was gifted to me by my soldiers.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2020
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
In massed squares battalion after battalion of Japanese infantry goose-stepped across the parade ground, each with its fluttering sunburst guidon.
From Time Magazine Archive
With nothing but a bag over my shoulder, a map and directions written on the back of the guidon in my left hand, and a tiny flashlight in my right hand, I was gone.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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