;Posted on 07/16/2014 5:15:38 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 16, 2014-- oriflamme
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
oriflamme [awr-uh-flam, or-]
noun
1. the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
2. any ensign, banner, or standard, especially one that serves as a rallying point or symbol.
Origin
1425–75; late Middle English oriflam < Middle French oriflamme, Old French, equivalent to orie golden (< Latin aurea, feminine of aureus, derivative of aurum gold) + flamme flame
History
sacred banner of St. Denis, late 15c., from O.Fr. orie flame, from L. aurea flamma "golden flame." The ancient battle standard of the kings of France, it was of red or orange-red silk, with two or three points, and was given to the kings by the abbot of St. Denis on setting out to war. Cotgrave says it was "borne at first onely in warres made against Infidells; but afterwards vsed in all other warres; and at length vtterly lost in a battell against the Flemings." It is last mentioned in an abbey inventory of 1534.
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Let’s raise the flag and get in some homework.
Ora-flamme.
I have the Choose Life one.
oriflamme — French paper folding
We follow the oriflamme of our star spangled banner because it symbolizes the cause of Liberty!
You're Number One!
Pretty soon both of those license plates will be banned, replaced by "Accept Illegals."
“You’re Number One!”
As I tell my 3 yr old - don’t point with that finger!
(Chuckle.) Paper that is carefully folded into interesting shapes and then set ablaze. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on here, although Obama is trying it with the Constitution.
We follow the oriflamme of our star spangled banner because it symbolizes the cause of Liberty!
Indeed! Too bad "we" doesn't include our fearless leader.
“2. any ensign, banner, or standard, especially one that serves as a rallying point or symbol.”....
I can see this being banned within a week. Anything that does NOT agree with the liberals thinking will automatically be banned FOREVER.
Yeah—the Stars and Stripes won’t be “diverse” enough for the commies in charge.
It’s already been court ordered to be removed in one case because it was perceived as “a threat”.
I recall the case. It was Cinquo de Mayo (what we used to call “May 5th”) and the court ruled that flying the American flag in a school that has a lot of Mexicans was incendiary.
That was one, but I was thinking of a different one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3174617/posts
Wow—wasn’t aware of that. Wouldn’t want to offend any Muslims, now would we?
it’s getting increasingly more difficult to stomach the news. every day it seems like it’s the worst imaginable, and then some new outrage takes place. I just read the FR story about Hillary on John Stewart written up in TPM and the comments after were just beyond belief. The left is fully ready to follow that woman’s oriflamme in 2016.
She was oldn news in 2008. She’s older now.
No, 2016 will be a lefter moonbat’s year, probably Elizabeth Warren.
The great toiltet paper riot will happen either in her first or second term.
We knew Obama would try to destroy the country. The surprise is how successful he has been.
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