ORIFLAMME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oriflamme mean? 

• ORIFLAMME (noun)
  The noun ORIFLAMME has 2 senses:

1. an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle

2. a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings

  Familiarity information: ORIFLAMME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIFLAMME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("oriflamme" is a kind of...):

symbol; symbolic representation; symbolisation; symbolization (something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("oriflamme" is a kind of...):

banner; standard (any distinctive flag)

Domain region:

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

If I had my wish, it would be to fall so—not, mark you, in any mere skirmish of the Company, but in a stricken field, with the great lion banner waving over us and the red oriflamme in front, amid the shouting of my fellows and the twanging of the strings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)