banderole

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See also: Banderole and banderolé

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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 Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y 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.

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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

  • → Polish: banderola

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