Forms: 6 banerol, banaroll, bannerall, 7 bandroul(e, -role, -roll, banrol, bannerolle, 7–9 banneroll, 8 banner-roll, 6– banderol, bannerol, 9 bannerole, banderole, (bandarole), bandrol. [a. F. banderole (15th c. banerolle, 16th c. banderolle), dim. of bandière, bannière, BANNER, probably after It. banderuola, dim. of bandiera BANNER.]
1. A long narrow flag, with cleft end, flying from the mast-heads of ships, carried in battle, etc.
1562. Leigh, Armory, 189. Any Banner, Standard, Banaroll.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxii. (1748), 342. Let them in the field be by their band-rouls known.
1681. Disc. Tanger, 16. Gayland … sent his Treasurer with a White Bandrol, offering terms of Peace.
1808. Scott, Marm., IV. xxxviii. Scroll, pennon, pensil, bandrol, there O’er the pavilions flew.
1870. Standard, 5 Dec., 5/6. Private Terreaux … disarmed a colour serjeant, took him prisoner, and seized on the bannerol he carried as a trophy.
2. A small ornamental streamer, e.g., that attached to the lance of a knight; in Her. one hanging down from the crook of a crosier, and folding over the staff.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 26. To despoyle of knightly bannerall.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 124. Thousands of Pilgrims … euery one with his banrol in his hand.
1829. W. Irving, Granada (1850), 21. The … lances bore gay bandaroles.
1848. Lytton, Harold, iii. 212. The lance with its pointed banderol.
1851. S. Judd, Margaret, xvii. (1871), 149. Her hair streamed bandrols in the wind.
b. ‘The little fringed silk flag that hangs on a trumpet’ J.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 490/1. Trumpeters … sounding their trumpets most roiallie, their bannerols displaied.
3. A ribbon-like scroll bearing a device or inscription.
1622. F. Markham, Bk. Warre, II. ix. 74. His Colors … are euermore contained in the Band-role vpon which his Crest standeth.
1875. Fortnum, Maiolica, iii. 30. Portraits of ladies with a ribbon or banderole on which the name is inscribed.
4. Arch. A flat band with an inscription, used in decorating buildings of the Renascence period.
5. A banner about a yard square, borne at the funerals of great men, and placed over the tomb. [See BANNEROL.]
