Pennon

The knight had a blue pennon hanging from the end of his lance.

Her yellow lockes crisped, like golden wyre, About her shoulders weren loosely shed, And when the winde emongst them did inspyre, They waued like a penon wyde dispred And low behinde her backe were scattered:

Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:

[…] in spite of a sort of screen intended to protect them from the wind, the flame of the torches streamed sideways into the air, like the unfurled pennon of a chieftain.

Precisely in the middle of the quadrangle were placed perpendicularly in the ground, a hundred or more slender, fresh-cut poles, stripped of their bark, and decorated at the end with a floating pennon of white tappa;

1863, Christina Rossetti, “A Royal Princess” in Isa Craig (ed.), An Offering to Lancashire, London: Emily Faithfull, p. 3, Vassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes,

Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points.

In 1821 the hobby-horse could have a real mane and a pretty topknot of wire, pennons and bells but with no wheels at the back.

1631, Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 21, … a ship most neatly that was lim’d, In all her sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d.

1780, Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Arragon, London: L. Davis et al., Fair Commerce wav’d her pennons in our ports;