banner roll

plural banner rolls

1. governmentA small square flag containing a single escutcheon of the deceased.

   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.

   1846, The manual of heraldry, page 51

2. A banderole.

   [...] and every horse having a man on his back in black, and everyone bearing a banner-roll of divers kings' arms, and[…]

   1967, English Historical Documents: 1485-1558, edited by C. H. Williams

   1 more example

   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".

   2000, Anita Callaway, Visual Ephemera: Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-century Australia, UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 19