Oriflamme definition

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The red silk banner of St Denis, which the abbot of St Denis gave to French kings as they rode to war.
Any banner, idea or principle which serves as a rallying point for those involved in a struggle.
- 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
  
  Please remember that the vocabulary of our readers isn’t very extensive, so don’t go using words like ‘oriflamme’ or ‘inelectable’.
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 417:
  
  Open spaces made visible the approach to almost every one of them, or else a splendid mass of foliage stood out before it like an oriflamme.

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