gonfalon

English

A civic gonfalon.

Alternative forms

• gonfalone
• gonfanon

Etymology

From Italian gonfalone.

Noun

gonfalon (plural gonfalons)

1. 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

   • 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Quest:

     With vermilion leaf or bronze—
     Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—

Translations

a standard or ensign

• Armenian: խաչադրոշ (hy) (xačadroš), զորադրոշ (hy) (zoradrož)
• French: gonfalon (fr) m

• Russian: хоругвь (ru) (xorúgv’) f, знамя (ru) (známja) f