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house-flag en · NOUN
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A flag that uniquely identifies the company that owns or, occasionally, that operates a ship.
No more dignified ship than the Queen Victoria flies the house-flag of any British line.
2012, John Dickson Carr, The Blind Barber, →ISBN:And when the house-flag fluttered half-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of Hector McKaye would thrill.
2008, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust, →ISBN, page 1:Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes of friendly boats, who saw that she was new to the High and Narrow Seas and wished to make her welcome.
1899, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work, page 84:
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(broadly) A flag that identifies a company, unit, or other group.
In the school ground, I saw a boy of section B was given the responsibility of leading the march past with house-flag in his hands.
2014, Prakash Sharma, Ohm, →ISBN, page 54:
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