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gonfalon|ˈgɒnfəlɒn|
Also 6–9 gonfalone.
[ad. It. gonfalone, Pg. gonfalão, Sp. confalon, F. gonfalon, later form of gonfanon.]
A banner or ensign, frequently composed of or ending in several tails or streamers, suspended from a cross-bar instead of being directly fastened to the pole, esp. as used by various Italian republics or in ecclesiastical processions.
1595T. Bedingfield tr. Macchiavelli's Flor. Hist. 73 For it sufficed that anie one man cried, let vs goe to such a place, or holding the Gonefalone by the hande, looked that way. 1667Milton P.L. v. 589 Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare Stream in the Aire. 1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gonfalon, the Banner of the Church carry'd in the Pope's Army. 1811Scott Don Roderick xxvi, The fiends had burst their yoke, And waved 'gainst heaven the infernal gonfalone. 1868Kinglake Crimea (1877) IV. vi. 131 The priests with images, gonfalons, and crosses.
fig.1887McCarthy in Gentl. Mag. Mar. 292 Home Rule was the gonfalon of a small, compact party of Irish members in the House of Commons. |