Definition of "gonfalon" [gon•fa•lon]

• A banner suspended from a crosspiece, especially as a standard in an ecclesiastical procession or as the ensign of a medieval Italian republic. (noun)

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• "“For years now,” Vivar said quietly, “the gonfalon has been a royal treasure, but always my family has been its guardians."
• "This man unfurled his gonfalon, and destroyed the houses of the Galletti, on account of a member of that family having slain one of the Florentine people in France."
• "This was the largest of them all, and at the peak of her stubby mast she flew the snarling leopard head gonfalon and the gaudy colours of the House of Trok Uruk."