oriflamme

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle
noun a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings

From Old French oriflambe, oriflamme, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”).

At length, however, Jeffrey de Charny was killed, and the oriflamme fell. — St. George for England, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A procession of all the gentlemen of France, with their oriflammes waving red before the eye. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
The North has not hoisted for its oriflamme the Sacred Symbol of Justice to the Negro; its cri de guerre is not unconditional emancipation." — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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