gonfalon

• gonfalone
• gonfanon

From Middle English gonfalon, from Old French gonfalon, from Frankish *gunþifanō, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːn.fə.ˌlɑːn/

gonfalon (plural gonfalons)

1. A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 588–590:

     Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,
     Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
     Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve

   • 1910, July 12, Franklin Pierce Adams, poem “That Double Play Again” aka “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”, New York Evening Mail, page 6:

     Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
     Making a Giant hit into a double—
     Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
     “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”

   • 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Quest:

     With vermilion leaf or bronze—
     Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—

• gonfanon

From Old French gonfalon, from Frankish *gunþifanō, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.

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gonfalon m (plural gonfalons)

1. gonfalon

• bannière, drapeau, enseigne, étendard

• “gonfalon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• confanon, gonfanon

From Frankish *gunþifanō, from Proto-Germanic *gunþifanô.

gonfalon m (oblique plural gonfalons, nominative singular gonfalons, nominative plural gonfalon)

1. gonfalon

• gonfalonier

• French: gonfalon
• → Middle English: gonfalon
  • English: gonfalon
• → Italian: gonfalone
• → Middle Dutch: gonfaloen
  • Dutch: gonfalon, gonfalone

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gonfalon, supplement)

From French gonfalon.

gonfalon n (plural gonfaloane)

1. gonfalon