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| | banner - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
 | | The English word "banner" is from banderia, Low Latin, meaning a banner (compare bandum, Latin, which meant first a "band," an organized military troop, and then a "flag"). |
 | | It has come to mean a flag, or standard, carried at the head of a military band or body, to indicate the line of march, or the rallying point, and it is now applied, in its more extended significance, to royal, national, or ecclesiastical "banners" also. |
 | | We find it applied sometimes to a streamer on the end of a lance, such as is used by the Arab sheik today. |
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