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banderole

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ban·de·role or ban·de·rol  (bnd-rl) also ban·ne·rol (bn-rl)
n.
1. A narrow forked flag or streamer attached to a staff or lance or flown from a ship's masthead.
2. A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.

[French, from Italian banderuola, diminutive of bandiera, banner, from Vulgar Latin *bandria; see banner.]

banderole
Noun
1. a narrow flag usually with forked ends
2. a ribbon-like scroll bearing an inscription [Old French]


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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.
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.
 
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