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Guidon   Listen
noun
Guidon  n.  
1.
A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon. "The pendants and guidons were carried by the officer of the army."
2.
One who carries a flag.
3.
One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.





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"Guidon" Quotes from Famous Books



... Indians on other bank river;" adding strength to the expression by taking her hand and pointing it to the opposite bank. He then again whispered, "Fire gun next setting sun, where stop," and then suddenly left her side, and she saw nothing more that night of Paul Guidon, for such ...
— Young Lion of the Woods - A Story of Early Colonial Days • Thomas Barlow Smith
... case where such a stronghold has fallen, the victory has been achieved solely through the destructive agency of newly discovered or newly marshalled facts—the only weapons which the warrior of science seeks or cares for. Facts must be marshalled, of course, about the guidon of a hypothesis, but that guidon can lead on to victory only when the facts themselves support it. Once planted victoriously on the conquered ramparts the hypothesis becomes a theory—a generalization of science—marking a fresh coign of vantage, which can never be successfully assailed unless ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams
... underlip and his dimpled, upheld chin. He carried his shoulders back, and his chest out. The reins hung gracefully in his left hand, and he had assumed a rather moving-picture pose of the right fist on his right hip. Behind him flew the red guidon, its stirruped staff held stiffly at the right arm's length by the battery ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons


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