pennon

noun8

1. •
   Any banner or flag.

   • [S]he has spread out that vile pennon or banner of womankind, like all the rest of her sex, to allure her votaries to death and headlong ruin. — 1816
2. •
   A heraldic charge in the form of a pennon.
3. •
   (historical) A long, narrow flag or streamer, often swallowtailed or triangular, usually hung at the top of a helmet or lance, originally the ensign of a knight under the rank of knight banneret, and later of a lancer regiment.

   • High on his pointed lance his Pennon bore / His Cretan Fight, the conquer'd Minotaure: […] — 1700
4. •
   (figurative) Something resembling a pennon.

   • [A] pillar of dark smoke, which ascended from the chimnies of the donjon, and spread its long dusky pennon through the clear ether, indicated that it was inhabited. — 1820
5. •
   Synonym of pennant (“a flag or streamer used on a ship”).

   • Lincolne a Ship most neatly that vvas lim'd, / In all her Sailes vvith Flags and Pennons trim'd. — 1627
6. •
   (literary, no longer used) Synonym of pinion (“a wing”).

   • [S]odainly there descended before him, as his face was bent towards the earth, an Angell, whose wings had glorious Pennons, and whose face glistered as the beames of the Sunne, […] — 1630
7. •
   (no longer used) A Knight Bachelor; also, a soldier who carries an ensign.

   • The Duke of Brabant had .xxiiij. Banners and .lxxx. Pennons, and in all, .vij. thousand men. — 1569
8. •
   (no longer used, rare) An ornament that dangles or hangs down.