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1965, Congresso Nacional do Brasil, Anais da Câmara dos Deputados, volume 26, Departamente de Imprensa Nacional, page 822:
[…]; nos balsões imperiais do Brasil, na primeira bandeira da Republica e nos vexilos dos inconfidentes mineiros de 1789 e dos revolucionários pernambucanos de 1817.
; on the imperial flags of Brazil, on the first flag of the Republic and on the banners Minas Gerais rebels and of the Pernambuco revolutionaries of 1817.
2003, E. Vilhena de Moraes, O duque de ferro: novo aspectos da figura de Caxias, Biblioteca do Exército, page 20:
Asperge, em seguida, com a agua lustral os vexilos, e, assentado no sólio, mitra na cabeça, os entrega ao soberano exclamando: […]
He then sprinkles the banners with holy water and, sitting on the throne mitre on his head, hands them to the sovereign and declaring:
Nenhum amava a liberdade, nenhum a served; mas ambos a arvoraram em seus vexilos para capa de paixões, de ódios, de ambições, de caprichos pessoais.
Neither loved freedom; neither served it; but both displayed it on their banners as a disguise for their passions, their hatreds, their ambitions, their personal fancies.
2017, Dante Alighieri (translator: Xavier Pinheiro), A Divina Comédia, Nova Fronteira, page 99:
Aparecem os vexilos do rei do Inferno.
The banners of the king of Hell appear.
(botany)vexillum(the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower)
