Banderole

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Banderole (Fr. for a "little banner") is a small flag or streamer carried on the lance of a knight, or flying from the mast-head of a ship in battle, etc.

• in heraldry, a streamer hanging from beneath the crook of a bishop's crosier and folding over the staff
• in architecture, a band used in decorative sculpture of the Renaissance period for bearing an inscription, etc.

"Bannerol" is the term especially applied to the square banners carried at the funerals of great men and placed over the tomb.

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.