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BANDEROLE (Fr. for a " little banner ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANDEROLE (Fr. for a " little banner ")  , a small See also:flag or streamer carried on the See also:lance of a See also:knight,. or flying from the See also:mast-See also:head of a See also:ship in See also:battle, &c.; in See also:heraldry, a streamer See also:hanging from beneath the crook of a See also:bishop's crosier and folding over the See also:staff; in See also:architecture, a See also:band used in decorative See also:sculpture of the See also:Renaissance See also:period for bearing an inscription, &c . Bannerol, in its See also:main uses the same as See also:banderole, is the See also:term especially applied to the square See also:banners carried at the funerals of See also:great men and placed over the See also:tomb .

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