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 art, especially in the Middle Ages a speech scroll or streamer carried by or surrounding a figure, for bearing an inscription, typically the name of or a quotation from the figure depicted, though many are blank and were decorative and never intended to be lettered.

"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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