FLAG OF TRUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flag of truce mean? 

• FLAG OF TRUCE (noun)
  The noun FLAG OF TRUCE has 1 sense:

1. flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce

  Familiarity information: FLAG OF TRUCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAG OF TRUCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flag of truce; white flag

Hypernyms ("flag of truce" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

 Context examples 

And then, in his first gracious tones, he replied to me, Yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins, said he, in the dog-watch, down came Doctor Livesey with a flag of truce.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We could see the man who carried the flag of truce attempting to hold Silver back.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“And what do you want with your flag of truce?” he cried.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)