Ensign

"In the depths of our hearts we all experience the Green Ensign; we all feel that it is something more than a mere symbol of a language."

And the more we participate in our yearly congresses, the more we associate, and the more the principles of the Green Ensign will penetrate our souls.

My favourite Star Trek: Enterprise episode is "Exile" about a telepathic alien's seduction of Ensign Hoshi Sato, a take on Beauty and the Beast.

The Ensigns of our Power about we bear; / And every Land pays Tribute to the Fair.

The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still,

But Alcibiades swiftly ran up the Athenian ensign on his flagship and bore down on that part of the Peloponnesian fleet which held the advantage and was pursuing the Athenians.

Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.

HENRY but ioyn’d the Roses, that ensign’d / Particular families, but this hath ioyn’d / The Rose and Thistle,

Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.