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🏳️ A narrow flag 📝 A scroll with words
banderole

banderole

9.9
A narrow decorative strip like a ribbon with words that show a name or saying
  • noun
  • /ˈbændəˌroʊl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : banderola
  • The birthday banner was decorated with a colorful banderole that read, 'Happy Birthday!'.

Examples

  • The young Baptist, toting a cross and clutching a banderole bearing the first letters of his weighty pronouncement, "behold the lamb of God," makes the significance of his leftward movement explicit.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Placement on a vehicle associated with words, usually a banderole, scroll, or codex, could in some cases convey more meaning than the words themselves.

    Academic text (1998)

  • At the festival, many floats displayed a banderole that celebrated the theme of peace.

  • The historical reenactors carried a banderole inscribed with the motto of their guild.

Synonyms

streamer
vsbanderole
13 1.1

A long narrow strip of paper or cloth used to decorate places like walls and windows

often carries an inscription or emblem rather than being plain
pennant
vsbanderole
7 4.6

A long narrow flag that ends in a point used for decoration or signals

may be any narrow decorative ribbon or banner without a taper
ribband
vsbanderole
  • Archaic
9.9

A small strip of cloth used to decorate or to show that someone won

serves as a decorative emblem often with words rather than award use

Surface Forms

banderole singular
banderoles plural

Etymology

Banderole comes from old French and Latin words for a small band or banner, 'a narrow strip of cloth' or ribbon. So a banderole is a small banner or streamer you use for decoration or as an emblem.