banderole

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1. A little banner, flag, or streamer.

   No plume or nobloy fluttered from his plain tilting salade, and even his lance was devoid of the customary banderole.

   1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 297

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   Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells.

   1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 47

   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.

   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

2. architectureA flat band with an inscription, common in Renaissance buildings.