Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow forked flag or streamer attached to a staff or lance or flown from a ship's masthead.
- noun A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small flag or streamer.
- noun In heraldry, a streamer affixed immediately beneath the crook on the top of the staff of a bishop, and folding over the staff.
- noun A long narrow streamer with cleft ends, carried at the masthead of ships, as in battle, etc.
- noun A band of various form adapted to receive an inscription, used in decorative sculpture and other decorative art, especially of the Renaissance period.
- noun Also written
bannerol .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little banner, flag, or streamer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A little
banner ,flag , orstreamer .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The banderole was a small flag of yellow silk, with a red moon in the centre, and on the face of the moon a white cross.
The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866
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But tonight ... tonight he cursed that cruelly traitorous strand, that hoary banderole of mortality that waved so thoughtlessly from an otherwise dark temple; that skinny, silver scroll upon which was written in letters bold enough for all of nature to read, an invitation to the burial mound.
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In addition to the frog tongue, in whose banderole she painted a fly, Ellen Cherry gave Boomer the black, bumpy tongue of a chow dog.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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The sector monitor issued the customary challenge; the corvette, disdaining response other than to break out a long serpent-tongue banderole, landed with insolent carelessness on the roof of the Grand Palace.
The Languages of Pao Vance, Jack, 1916- 1958
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At the top, a pretty banderole, which appears at first sight to form a part of the _ensemble_ of the curves, completes the design.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various
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The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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The choicest tapestries which the looms of Arras could furnish draped the walls, whereon the battles of Judas Maccabaeus were set forth, with the Jewish warriors in plate of proof, with crest and lance and banderole, as the naive artists of the day were wont to depict them.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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