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banderole en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A little banner, flag, or streamer.
   • Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells. 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 47:
   • No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole. 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 297:
   • A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak. 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 26:
2. A flat band with an inscription, common in Renaissance buildings.

Forms

Relateds

banner roll · pencel

Translations (4)

pl filakteria (in architecture) · pl chorągiewka (a little flag) · pl banderola (in architecture) · pl banderola (a little flag)