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English
Noun
banner roll (plural banner rolls)
- (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.
- 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1967, English Historical Documents: 1485-1558, edited by C. H. Williams:[...]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