gonfalon

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See, I am ready to be taken as thou wilt The Hegumen gave him in charge of the brethren; and at his signal, the gonfalon was raised and carried through the concourse, and out of one of the doors, followed closely by the Brotherhood At the moment of starting, Sergius lifted his hands, and shouted so as to be heard above the confusion: "Bear witness, O Serenity--and thou, O Emperor!

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  1. noun A banner suspended from a crosspiece, especially as a standard in an ecclesiastical procession or as the ensign of a medieval Italian republic.

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  • Then came high school, however, and a sudden acquaintance with Thomas Wolfe and a sense that it was time to put away childish things, go for the gonfalon. —  F ;SF - vol 104 issue 06 - June 2003
  • Now, be it noted, that a stuffed dead duck had become the gonfalon or banner of the Republicans, and where it swung there the battle was fiercest. —  Memoirs
  • Your resplendent gonfalon, if I may so express myself, has ever been Victory's chosen perch I've pulled a majority hitherto And you will, you will. —  The Henchman
  • But here there is no gonfalon, no golden chain of office, no velvet doublet, cloak, and rapier, no guards with arquebuss or polished crossbow. —  Hodge and His Masters
  • See, I am ready to be taken as thou wilt The Hegumen gave him in charge of the brethren; and at his signal, the gonfalon was raised and carried through the concourse, and out of one of the doors, followed closely by the Brotherhood At the moment of starting, Sergius lifted his hands, and shouted so as to be heard above the confusion: "Bear witness, O Serenity--and thou, O Emperor! —  The Prince of India — Volume 02
 

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  1. Italian gonfalone, of Germanic origin; see gwhen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A corruption of the earlier gonfanon, q. v.
 

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