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  • noun Plural form of oriflamme.

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Examples

  • The altar was bright with flowers and candles, and "oriflammes" of blue and pink gauze, worked with gold and silver lilies, were stretched across the church between the pillars.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • 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

  • French contemporaries, but they are of like kind; he has fine passages, charming ideas, but no well-ordered work; his colours are fresh but crude, like the colours of illuminations, blazons, or oriflammes; his nights are of sable, and his meadows seem of sinople, his flowers are

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Of a sudden the sky was hung with banners -- banners that rippled and folded and unfolded, banners of rainbows, long, shaking loops of red and silver, ghosts of lost emeralds and sapphires, oriflammes that fluttered in the heavens, swaying across the world in mysterious majesty.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • 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 1919

  • Then followed a procession of all the nobles of France, with their oriflammes fluttering red before one.

    VI. Three Various Hearts of Men. Book VIII 1917

  • She looked round her into the clear air at the dense green and gold sunshine filtering through the colored trees, the softly spread patens of the cosmos, the vivid oriflammes of the chrysanthemums.

    The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • 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 Abraham Merritt 1913

  • From that moment every day some new band came into Vendome with a young leader in command, and was loudly welcomed by the other waiting bands; while coming across the plains, other groups could be seen marching towards the city, with their flags and oriflammes waving high, and their crosses held higher yet.

    Ten Boys from History Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903

  • There were the same gowns black and gray; the same tonsured heads, and heads shock-haired; the same hoods and glistening rosaries; the same gloomy, bearded faces; the same banners, oriflammes, and ecclesiastical gonfalons, each with its community under it in a distinctive group.

    The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

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