gonfalon

• gonfalone
• gonfanon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːn.fəˌlɑːn/, /-lən/

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 CXXXVII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, 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^[1]:

     With vermilion leaf or bronze—
     Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—

   • 1964, Jan Morris, “Four Cities”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:

     It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.

2. (heraldry) Alternative form of gonfanon.

• gonfalonier

• gonfanon

Inherited 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 oblique singular, 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)

Borrowed from French gonfalon.

gonfalon n (plural gonfaloane)

1. gonfalon