Gonfalonier

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gonfalonier \Gon`fa*lon*ier"\, n. [F. gonfalonier: cf. It.
     gonfaloniere.]
     He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer; as:
     (a) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church.
     (b) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in
         medi[ae]veal Italy.


     (c) A Turkish general, and standard keeper.
         [1913 Webster]