Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
banderole . - noun In England, a banner, about a yard square, borne at the funerals of prominent men, and placed over the tomb. It bears the arms of the ancestors and alliances of the deceased, painted on silk. Also erroneously written banner-roll and banneral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See
banderole .
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- noun Alternative form of
banderole .
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Examples
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Like his men, he wears a motley garb, -- part Spanish uniform, part costume of the Llanos; and he leans upon a lance, decorated with a black bannerol, which has carried death already to innumerable Loyalist hearts.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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Close in the rear of the resistless herd then charged the lancers of Paez, with the terrible black bannerol fluttering in the van.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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He was clad in mail and leather, and from his lance fluttered the bannerol bearing the Borgia arms, which had announced his quality to
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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"The leader's bannerol bears the device of a red bull," he answered promptly.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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On the lifth bannerol was also the defunct's arms, impaled with the arms of Margaret his second wife, daughter of Ellis Barlow, Esq.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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On the fifth baimerol was also the defunct's arms, impaled with the arms of Margaret his second wife, daughter of Ellis Barlow, Esq - On the sixth bannerol was impaled, with the arms of the defunct, the arms of Mary his third wife, daughter of Sir George Cotton, Knt. vice chamberlain to King Ed. VI.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges , Samuel Egerton Brydges 1812
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On the sixth bannerol was impaled, with the arms of the defunct, the arms of Mary his third wife, daughter of Sir George Cotton, Knt. vice chamberlain to King Ed. VI.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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Earl of Wanvick and Salisbury - The second bannerol was of George LordStanlcy andStrange, i the son and heir of the said Thomas, impaled I with the arms of Jane his wife, daughter and heir of John Lord Strange of Knockin.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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The third bannerol was the arms of Thomas, the second Earl of Derby of that name, Lord Stan* • ley, Strange, and of Man, impaled with the arms of Anne his wife, daughter of Edward Lord Hastings, and sister to George Lord Hastings, the first Earl of Huntingdon of that name.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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And on the outside of them, about the said "ehariot, rode six other esquires, their hoods on tbdr heads, their horses trapped, each of them bearing a bannerol, not only of the defunct's amis, bat also the arms of such noble houses whereof he was descended, viz. the arms cf Tho - mas, first Earl of Derby of that name.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges , Samuel Egerton Brydges 1812
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