Definition of "banderole" []

• A narrow forked flag or streamer attached to a staff or lance or flown from a ship's masthead. (noun)
• A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription. (noun)

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• "The banderole was a small flag of yellow silk, with a red moon in the centre, and on the face of the moon a white cross."
• "But tonight ... tonight he cursed that cruelly traitorous strand, that hoary banderole of mortality that waved so thoughtlessly from an otherwise dark temple; that skinny, silver scroll upon which was written in letters bold enough for all of nature to read, an invitation to the burial mound."
• "In addition to the frog tongue, in whose banderole she painted a fly, Ellen Cherry gave Boomer the black, bumpy tongue of a chow dog."