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  • noun Plural form of banneret.

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Examples

  • Banners and bannerets, torn and tattered and bearing strange symbols, fluttered from them.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • Out of the radiance around it great flames gathered, shook into sight with streamings and pennonings, in bannerets and bandrols, leaped upon the crystal pipes, and merged within them.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • There is only a half light in this temple, which is further obscured by scores of smoked and dusty bannerets of gold and silver brocade hanging from the roof.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Not only were there chod-tens and a gonpo in this poor place, and family altars, but prayer-wheels, i.e. wooden cylinders filled with rolls of paper inscribed with prayers, revolving on sticks, to be turned by passers-by, inscribed cotton bannerets on poles planted in cairns, and on the roofs long sticks, to which strips of cotton bearing the universal prayer, Aum mani padne hun

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • And moss veils like banners of a marching host of Titans; pennons and bannerets of the sunset; gonfalons of the Jinn; webs of faery; oriflammes of elfland!

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.

    All’s Well That Ends Well 2004

  • She camped outside in a borrowed motor, festooned with garlands and bannerets.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She camped outside in a borrowed motor, festooned with garlands and bannerets.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • All the little girls carried bannerets of bright colour, and all went bareheaded, after the manner of the district, where no woman, short of the highest fashion, ever permits herself to wear hat or bonnet, except when going to mass or upon a railway journey.

    Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • Semper cites a passage from an Indian drama to the effect that over the doorway there was stretched an arch of ivory, and about it were bannerets on which wild safran (_Saflor_) was painted.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various

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