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white flag

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white flag
n.
A white cloth or flag signaling truce or surrender.
white flag
Noun
a signal of surrender or to request a truce
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Noun1.white flagwhite flag - flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce
flag of truce
flag - emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design


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Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground.
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