banner roll

English

Noun

banner roll (plural banner rolls)

1. (heraldry) A small square flag containing a single escutcheon of the deceased.
   • 1846, The manual of heraldry, page 51:

     BANNER ROLL is a small square flag containing a single escutcheon of the deceased. Thus, if there are twelve quarterings in the banner, the same number of banner rolls will be required to be borne in the funeral procession.

2. A banderole.
   • 1967, English Historical Documents: 1485-1558, edited by C. H. Williams:

     [...] and every horse having a man on his back in black, and everyone bearing a banner-roll of divers kings' arms, and […]

   • 2000, Anita Callaway, Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-century Australia, UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 19:

     One arm displays a parchment sheet, on which are these words, "THE BILL OF RIGHTS". The other sustains a spear with the cap of liberty and over the whole floats a banner-roll, inscribed - "The spell is broken".

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]