Definitions for banderole

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banderole ban·de·role

Spelling: [ban-duh-rohl]

IPA: /ˈbæn dəˌroʊl/

Banderole is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in banderole (abdeelnor).

Definitions for banderole

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 banderole

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

Examples for banderole

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.

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

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