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Gonfalon
GON'FALON
Definition 2024
gonfalon
gonfalon
English
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A civic gonfalon.
Alternative forms
Noun
gonfalon (plural gonfalons)
- A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590:
- Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,
Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
- Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,
- 1910, July 12, Franklin Pierce Adams, poem “That Double Play Again” aka “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”, New York Evening Mail, page 6:
- Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double—
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
- Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
- 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Quest:
- With vermilion leaf or bronze—
Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—
- With vermilion leaf or bronze—
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 5, lines 588–590:
Translations
a standard or ensign