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  • noun Plural form of banderol.

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Examples

  • Rolandic fury, this wit which slashed down all things, using epigram as its weapon, intoxicated Marie and amused the circle around them, as the sight of a bull goaded with banderols amuses the company in a Spanish circus.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • In the bedecked streets, large banderols and streamers were strung with inscriptions in both languages hailing the visit of Fidel Castro and his delegation and the indestructible militant friendship between the Vietnamese and Cuban peoples.

    AIRPORT CEREMONY, WELCOMING BANQUET FOR CASTRO 1973

  • The dining-room is hung with tapestries of the fourteenth century; the style and the orthography of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove their age, but being, as they are, in the naive language of the fabliaux, it is impossible to transcribe them here.

    Beatrix 1839

  • But now all the enclosure was filled with the foe, the whole space seemed gay, in the darkening air, with banderols and banners.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But now all the enclosure was filled with the foe, the whole space seemed gay, in the darkening air, with banderols and banners.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The dining-room is hung with tapestries of the fourteenth century; the style and the orthography of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove their age, but being, as they are, in the naive language of the/fabliaux/, it is impossible to transcribe them here.

    Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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