Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The earlier form of
gonfalon .
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- noun Alternative form of
gonfalon .
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Examples
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The _oriflamme_ was in the form of a gonfanon with two wings, made of a costly silk, fine and light, called
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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Harold's presumptuous guilt in rejection, the fiery fanaticism of all enlisted under the gonfanon of the Church.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The bull of the Vatican is in the tent of the Norman; the gonfanon of
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The most immediate agents of this gigantic scheme were the Normans, who had conquered Naples by the arm of the adventurer Robert Guiscard, and under the gonfanon of St. Peter.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The corpses had been flung in irreverent haste from either side of the gonfanon, to make room for the banner of the conquest, and the pavilion of the feast.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In the midst of the Duke's cohort was the sacred gonfanon, and in front of it and of the whole line, rode a strange warrior of gigantic height.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Behind him flaunted the great gonfanon of Spain, and trump and cymbal heralded his approach.
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Lordships and lands to the living, -- glory and salvation to those who die under the gonfanon of the Church!
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"See," said De Graville, "how near yon lonely woman hath come to the tent of the Duke -- yea, to the foot of the holy gonfanon, which supplanted 'the Fighting Man!' pardex, my heart bleeds to see her striving to lift up the heavy dead!"
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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There, were to be seen the flags of Bretagne and Anjou, of Burgundy, of Flanders, even the ensign of France, which the volunteers from that country had assumed; and right in the midst of this Capital of War, the gorgeous pavilion of William himself, with a dragon of gold before it, surmounting the staff, from which blazed the Papal gonfanon.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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