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noun

Guidon n.

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."

One who carries a flag.

One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Guidon" Quotes from Famous Books

... toward Merritt, who, having mounted his troopers, had moved them off to the right, and by the time I reached his headquarters flag he was ready for work, so a move on the enemy's left was ordered, and every guidon was bent to the front. As the cavalry marched along parallel with the Confederate line, and in toward its left, a heavy fire of artillery opened on us, but this could not check us at such a time, and we soon reached some high ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 5 • P. H. Sheridan

... was not true. At this moment some of the regulars appeared across the ravine on our right. The first thing they did was to fire a volley at us, but one of our first sergeants went up a tree and waved a guidon at them and they stopped. Firing was still going on to our left, however, and I was never more puzzled to know what to do. I did not wish to take my men out of their position without orders, for fear that I might thereby be ...

— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt