Pennant

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Pennant may refer to:

• Jermaine Pennant: An English Football player, currently playing for Liverpool F.C.
• A usually narrow, tapering flag most commonly flown by ships at sea and sometimes called "pendants". Navies use a variety of pennants:
  • A commissioning pennant, the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission.
  • A broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board.
  • A church pennant, flown by navies during church services on board ships. In the United States Navy it is flown above a flag of national colors.
• A pennant number
• In team sports, a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team. The last few weeks of the regular American professional baseball season, for instance, are known as the "pennant race". This is probably a holdover from the time (pre-1969) when the league championships were determined by the team with the best record at the end of the season, and to a lesser extent when there were division races but no wild cards (1969–93).
• A reference to the pennant-shaped "No Passing Zone" traffic sign found in the United States, used to indicate the start of a two-lane highway where vehicles traveling in the same direction are not permitted to pass each other. See also Prohibitory traffic sign.
• The common name for the Genus of dragonfly known as Celithemis.
• Thomas Pennant: Welsh naturalist and antiquary.

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• Maritime flags