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Definition of Bannerlike
1. Adverb. Like a banner. "She waved her scarf at him bannerlike"
Definition of Bannerlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a banner ¹
2. Adverb. So as to resemble a banner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bannerlike
Literary usage of Bannerlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike. He was swelled
with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend, who had heard it ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A contrivance by which a bannerlike plate, as of thin metal, is moved by the wind
around a pivot, so that a point on the opposite side of the pivot points ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"When extended, as in the plate, they appear bannerlike, and we shall term them
the banners. Near the base of each is a small cluster of long, stout bristles ..."
4. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology by Walter L. Nash (1882)
"... forming a bannerlike end, the use or meaning of which is difficult to guess.
The posts upon wliich the doors turned had evidently been surmounted by the ..."
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