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Definition of Pirate flag
1. Noun. A flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship.
Generic synonyms: Flag
Terms within: Skull And Crossbones
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirate Flag
Literary usage of Pirate flag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration (1901)
"You know we have the United States flag on all of our government naval vessels,
but under that we have had a pirate flag. The public have not seen it ..."
2. Conduct as a Fine Art: The Laws of Daily Conduct by Nicholas Paine Gilman, Edward Payson Jackson (1891)
"I know an able and highly esteemed judge who has a pirate flag with skull ...
He looks upon both his pirate flag and his tobacco as ineffaceable scars of ..."
3. Illustrated Case Inscriptions from the Official Catalogue of the Trophy by Harold Connett Washburn, United States Naval Academy (1913)
"CATALOGUE NUMBER 10 Chinese pirate flag. Bears in the center the Korean national
symbol, the Yang Ying. defaced by dots. The border is a geometrical ..."
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