Gonfanon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 75 anagrams from letters in gonfanon (afgnnnoo).
1250-1300; Middle English go(u)nfano(u)n Old French gunfanun, gonfanon, Old Provençal gonfano Germanic; compare Old High German gund (Old English gūth) battle, German Fahne flag
Originally this ensign was called a gonfanon, the combination of two Teutonic words, signifying war and a standard.
He bore the gonfanon boldly, high aloft in the breeze, and rode by the duke, going wherever he went.
As they sat upright upon their horses the tails of the gonfanon reached down to their hands or even to their feet.
Another variety of feudal standard, differing from either the bannire or the pennon, was the gonfanon.
Seeing that the original has gonfanon, it is clear that Chaucer wrote gonfanoun, riming with renoun.
Near the head of the lance is a gonfanon the fly of which is split into long tails.
No sign of the cross now remains in the painting, but in the sculpture it is plainly visible at the head of this gonfanon.
A gonfanon blue and white with a shield of the royal arms surrounded by a garter powdered with a golden fleurs de lis.
I shall only add that the banner was sometimes called the gonfanon.
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