banderole

• bandrol, bannerall, bannerol, bannerole

banderole (plural banderoles)

1. A little banner, flag, or streamer.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 47:

     Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells.

   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross.

2. (architecture) A flat band with an inscription, common in Renaissance buildings.

• pencel
• banner roll

• bandoleer

Borrowed from Italian banderuola.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.dʁɔl/

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banderole f (plural banderoles)

1. banner (in political demonstration)
2. banderole (in the sense of "streamer, little banner, little flag")
3. streamer (as a decoration)
4. (architecture) banderole (flat band with an inscription)

• → Polish: banderola

• “banderole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.