gonfanon

/gon-fuh-nuhn/US // ˈgɒn fə nən //

贡法农,贡法诺,冈法农

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a gonfalon that hangs directly from a pole, especially from the shaft of a lance just below the lance head.

Originally this ensign was called a gonfanon, the combination of two Teutonic words, signifying war and a standard.
Seeing that the original has gonfanon, it is clear that Chaucer wrote gonfanoun, riming with renoun.
I shall only add that the banner was sometimes called the Gonfanon.
Near the head of the lance is a gonfanon the fly of which is split into long tails.
Another variety of feudal standard, differing from either the bannire or the pennon, was the gonfanon.