All 5 Uses of
pennant
in
Dune
- The Houses Minor behind them, sheep-faced and responsive, laughed with just the right tone of appreciation, but the sound carried a note of discord as it collided with the sudden blast of motors that came to them when pages threw open the outer doors, revealing the line of ground cars, their guidon pennants whipping in a breeze.†
Book 2
- They were seated in the golden box above the triangular arena—horns blaring, the tiers above and around them jammed with a hubbub of people and waving pennants—when the answer came to the Baron.†
Book 2
- The slave backed, holding knife in teeth and lashing the barbed shaft to his arm with the pennant.†
Book 2 *
- He gave a hand signal to his guard, and a servant above them dipped the Harkonnen orange pennant over the box—once, twice, three times—signal for a fete.†
Book 2
- And again, he caused the pennant to be dipped in signal.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(pennant) a flag given to a champion as an award
or:
a triangular flag (often used for nautical signals)