Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A distinguishing pennant carried by vessels having the mail in transportation. The United States mail-flag is a swallow-tail pennant with a red field, a blue border, and a spread-eagle in the upper corner.

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Examples

  • This would have been well enough had the waterway been clear of other vessels, but the Jersey steamer was coming in, with her yellow funnel gleaming in the sunlight, her mail-flag fluttering at her foremast, and her captain swearing on the bridge, with the whistle-pull in his hand.

    The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882

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