house-flag
English
Alternative forms
- house flag, houseflag
Noun
house-flag (plural house-flags)
- (nautical) A flag that uniquely identifies the company that owns or, occasionally, that operates a ship.
- 1899, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work, page 84:
- Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes of friendly boats, who saw that she was new to the High and Narrow Seas and wished to make her welcome.
- 2008, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust, →ISBN, page 1:
- And when the house-flag fluttered half-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of Hector McKaye would thrill.
- 2012, John Dickson Carr, The Blind Barber, →ISBN:
- No more dignified ship than the Queen Victoria flies the house-flag of any British line.
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- (by extension) A flag that identifies a company, unit, or other group.
- 2014, Prakash Sharma, Ohm, →ISBN, page 54:
- In the school ground, I saw a boy of section B was given the responsibility of leading the march past with house-flag in his hands.
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