The bearer of a banner or ensign, frequently composed of or ending in several tails or streamers, suspended from a cross-bar instead of being directly fastened to the pole, especially as used by various Italian republics or in ecclesiastical processions. A standard bearer.
"The kynge Boors so smote Sarmedon, the ganfononer, that he kutte off the arme with all the sheilde, and the banner fell to the erthe."
Merlin, or the early history of king Arthur, a prose romance (c. 1450).
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