Definitions for banderoles

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banderoles ban·de·role

Spelling: [ban-duh-rohl]

IPA: /ˈbæn dəˌroʊl/

Banderoles is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1087 anagrams from letters in banderoles (abdeelnors).

Definitions for banderoles

noun

1. a small flag or streamer fastened to a lance, masthead, etc.
2. a narrow scroll, usually bearing an inscription.
3. (especially in Renaissance architecture) a sculptured band, as on a building, adapted to receive an inscription.

Origin of banderoles

1555-65; Middle French Italian banderuola, equivalent to bandier(a) banner + -uola Latin -e- or -i- + -ola -ole²

Examples for banderoles

Usually a flying cherub holds an end of the banderole, and Ferri shows a wingless putto even, flying with no other assistance.

The banderole was a small flag of yellow silk, with a red moon in the centre, and on the face of the moon a white cross.

Corti made the passage safely, and in the road beyond the moat halted, and drove the staff of his banderole firmly in the ground.

Before his time, the soldiers merely wore a banderole over their steel breast-plates and ordinary dresses.