bannerlike
English
Etymology
banner + -like
Adjective
bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)
- Resembling a banner
- 2000 October 27, Fred Camper, “Language of Nature”, in Chicago Reader:
- In the center of Flag are five bannerlike horizontal colored bands, each containing a row of plants--but this flag is no fixed symbolic entity.
- 2008 August 24, Alessandra Stanley, “Plus-Size Sideshow”, in New York Times:
- On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.
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Adverb
bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)
- So as to resemble a banner
- 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 1:
- He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
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