What is "pennants"

Usage examples of "pennants".

From each masthead flew the banners of Islam and the pennants of Omani and the Great Mogul.

Today, cars had been banned, and replaced by pickup trucks and minivans and aluminum specialty wagons purveying T-shirts, pennants, mugs, buttons, pins, posters and food .

Those were their grandest days, streaming into battle with their cavalry pennants flying, dust billowing behind them, bounding and crashing through the don gas and ant bear holes, their machine guns blazing and the terrified German askaris scattering before them.

The motorcycle outriders were sitting astride their machines flanking the newly polished but passenger-less Rolls-Royce command car, with its gay pennants and its driver sitting lugubriously at the wheel.

Shutters high above our heads had been opened and a breeze stirred the array of pennants hanging from the central arch of the roof.

I walked slowly along the beach, looking at the signal pennants flying at each masthead, trying find the yellow and crimson pattern the last galley-master had grudgingly shown me, identifying the next domain I needed to cross on this painfully slow progress up the Archipelago.

That was interesting in itself, given the preponderance of massive galleys all around us, but more intriguing still was the array of white-bordered pennants strung down a long line from the top of the mast.

He told the woman the name of his ship and she nodded with satisfaction as she noted the pennants at the masthead.

There it burst open and the tricolour of the Dutch Republic streamed out on the southeaster, orange and snowy white and blue, Within moments the other banners and long pennants burst out from the head of the mizzen and the foremast, one emblazoned with the cipher of the VOC, die Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the United East India Company.

The pretty flags and pennants that streamed from her masts contrasted with the pile of her white sails.

Rousse bellowed as the sails fell slack and empty, the pennants drooping.

Standing in the center of the concourse, I slowly turned in a circle, surveying the carnival around,me, where the pennants still hung like sleeping bats, where the shuttered hankypanks and grab-joints were tomb-black, tomb-silent, and I perceived no sign of life.

Genevera saw distant dun hints of the dust cloud long before she heard trumpets or caught the scarlet pennants snapping in the breeze.

He had tied his hair back with a strip torn from the hem of his shirt, and the ends of the cloth flapped in the light breeze like pennants over his right ear.

Green and gold pennants flew, emblazoned with Elven slogans and runes.