Definition of "gonfalon"

gonfalon

/ˈɡɑːn.fəˌlɑːn/

noun
plural gonfalons
1. A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
  Quotations
  Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and ReareStreame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
  1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 588–590
  Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,Making a Giant hit into a double—Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
  1910, July 12, Franklin Pierce Adams, poem “That Double Play Again” aka “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”, New York Evening Mail, page 6
  With vermilion leaf or bronze—Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons—
  1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Quest‎
2. (heraldry) Alternative form of gonfanon