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gonfanon Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈgɒnfənən|
Forms: 4 gom-, gonfaynoun, 4–5 gon-, gunfanoun, (4 goffanoun, goinfa(i)noun, -faynoun, gounfanoun, gunfa(i)nun, -phanun, 5 confanon, ganfano(u)n), 7–8 gonfannon, -ennon, 5–gonfanon.
[a. OF. gunfanun, gonfanon, etc., = Pr. gonfano, med.L. guntfano, ad. OHG. gundfano, chundfano (OE. gúðfana, ON. gunnfane), f. *gund- (OE. gúþ):—OTeut. *gunþjâ war + fano banner, fanon. From the later Fr. and It. forms gonfalon, -one comes the doublet gonfalon.]
1. = gonfalon. In the middle ages, chiefly applied to the small flag or pennon suspended immediately beneath the steel head of a knight's lance. Also fig.
a1300Cursor M. 21732 On cros godd boght ur saul liues, þar-on he gaf him-seluen ranscun, And of him-seluen mad gunphanun. 13..K. Alis. 1963 There was mony gonfanoun, Of gold, sendel, and siclatoun. 13..Sir Tristr. 173 He bad his kniȝtes..Com..Wiþ hors and wepenes fele And rered goinfaynoun. c1400Rom. Rose 2018, I bere of Love the gonfanoun, Of Curtesye the banere. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xv. 45 The chyef capytaynes of the oostis had gonfanons with certeyn deuyses. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 272/1 A Papal Gonfanon, or square Banner... This..is ever carried before the Popes Holiness, when he goeth, or is carried in Processions. 1794J. P. Malcolm in Gentl. Mag. Libr. Topog. III. (1893) 32 On his gonfannons a bend between six escallops. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 320 He holds a long spear, ornamented by a gonfanon. 1876Tennyson Harold v. i, I see the gonfanon of Holy Peter Floating above their helmets.
†2. A lance from which a gonfanon is suspended.
1481Caxton Godfrey cxcviii. 289 And with the gonfanon that he bare Iusted ayenst hym in suche wyse that he bare hym thurgh the bodye and slewe hym.
Hence † gonfanoner [= OF. gunfanunier], the bearer of a gonfanon.
c1450Merlin 211 The kynge Boors so smote Sarmedon, the ganfanoner, that he kutte of the arme with all the sheilde, and the baner fill to the erthe. |