revenue ensign

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English[edit]

Flag of the United States Customs Service, now the CBP Ensign.

Noun[edit]

revenue ensign (plural revenue ensigns)

  1. (US, historical) The flag of the United States Customs Service.
    • 1846, James Lindridge, Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea:
      It may not be generally known, that revenue ensigns have a crown and star in the fly, to distinguish them from those worn by vessels under the orders of the Admiralty.
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