banderole
English
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editNoun
editbanderole (plural banderoles)
- 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.
- (architecture) A flat band with an inscription, common in Renaissance buildings.
Translations
edita little flag
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in architecture
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See also
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian banderuola.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbanderole f (plural banderoles)
- banner (in political demonstration)
- banderole (in the sense of "streamer, little banner, little flag")
- streamer (as a decoration)
- (architecture) banderole (flat band with an inscription)
Descendants
edit- → Polish: banderola
Further reading
edit- “banderole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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