banderole

See also: Banderole and banderolé

English

Alternative forms

• bandrol, bannerall, bannerol, bannerole

Noun

banderole (plural banderoles)

1. A little banner, flag, or streamer.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 47:

     Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells.

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 26:

     A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.

   • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 297:

     No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.

2. (architecture) A flat band with an inscription, common in Renaissance buildings.

Translations

a little flag

• Polish: banderola (pl) f, chorągiewka (pl) f

in architecture

• Polish: banderola (pl) f, filakteria f

See also

• pencel
• banner roll

Anagrams

• bandoleer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian banderuola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.dʁɔl/

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Noun

banderole f (plural banderoles)

1. banner (in political demonstration)
2. banderole (in the sense of "streamer, little banner, little flag")
3. streamer (as a decoration)
4. (architecture) banderole (flat band with an inscription)

Descendants

• → German: Banderole
• → Polish: banderola

Further reading

• “banderole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012