banderole

noun

ban·​de·​role ˈban-də-ˌrōl 

variants or banderol

1

: a long narrow forked flag or streamer

2

: a long scroll bearing an inscription or a device

Synonyms

• banner
• colors
• ensign
• flag
• guidon
• jack
• pendant [chiefly British]
• pendent
• pennant
• pennon
• standard
• streamer

Examples of banderole in a Sentence

during the festival this ancient Italian city is bestrewn with banderoles celebrating its illustrious medieval heritage

Recent Examples on the Web

Une banderole déployée à l'entrée pic.twitter.com/6vwQ6ygRcX — Thibault Izoret (@TIM_7375) February 10, 2020 BlackRock offices in other cities have drawn similar protests in the past few years, including its New York headquarters and London. —Gaspard Sebag, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2020

Word History

Etymology

earlier banaroll, bandrol, bannerall, borrowed from Middle French banderolle (16th century), bannerolle (15th century), probably borrowed from Italian banderuola (or an equivalent in Upper Italian), diminutive of bandiera "banner, pennant," borrowed from Old Occitan, from banda "troop, band entry 3" (or its source, Late Latin bandum "flag, standard") + -iera -er entry 2

Note: Old Occitan bandiera corresponds exactly in sense and suffixation to Old French baniere (see banner entry 1). Though the bases of each word are distinct, their derivatives have in effect coalesced. This is also true of other words derived ultimately from, on the one hand, Germanic *bannan- "call on, order, summon, etc.," and on the other, Gothic bandwo "sign, signal." Compare Italian bandire "to announce, proclaim, proscribe" (see bandit), overlapping in sense with Old French banir (see banish), both dependent in part on Medieval Latin bannīre, bandīre, with both forms.

First Known Use

1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1