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gon⋅fa⋅lon

  [gon-fuh-luhn]
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–noun
1. a banner suspended from a crossbar, often with several streamers or tails.
2. a standard, esp. one used by the medieval Italian republics.
Origin:
1585–95; < It gonfalone < MF gonfalon, gonfanon < Gmc; see gonfanon
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gon·fa·lon   (gŏn'fə-lŏn', -lən)   
n.  A banner suspended from a crosspiece, especially as a standard in an ecclesiastical procession or as the ensign of a medieval Italian republic.

[Italian gonfalone, of Germanic origin; see gwhen- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

gonfalon 
1595, variant of M.E. gonfanon (c.1300), from O.Fr. gonfanon "knight's pennon," from O.H.G. guntfano "battle flag," from P.Gmc. *gunthja- "war" + *fano "banner" (cf. Goth. fana "cloth"). Cognate with O.E. guþfana, O.N. gunnfani. Change of -n- to -l- by dissimilation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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