bannerlike

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1. Resembling a banner

   On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.

   2008 August 24, Alessandra Stanley, “Plus-Size Sideshow”, in New York Times

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   In the center of Flag are five bannerlike horizontal colored bands, each containing a row of plants--but this flag is no fixed symbolic entity.

   2000 October 27, Fred Camper, “Language of Nature”, in Chicago Reader

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1. So as to resemble a banner

   He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.

   1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1