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In the British Army's cavalry units, the king's cavalry standard and the regimental standard (for the heavy cavalry) and the king's cavalry guidons and regimental guidons (for the light cavalry) are the equivalents to the line infantry colours. The king's standard is crimson with the royal coat of arms and cypher, plus the regimental honours ...
19th century guidon used by the 7th Cavalry Regiment. In the United States Armed Forces, a guidon is a military standard or flag that company/battery/troop or platoon-sized detachments carry to signify their unit designation and branch/corps affiliation or the title of the individual who carries it.
Guidon (music), a music notation symbol that is similar to a catchword in literature; Guidon (rank), a military rank equivalent to ensign; The GUIDON, the student newspaper of Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
"Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise") off the ground by his own bomb (" petard "), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice.
The pennon is a small elongated flag, either pointed or swallow-tailed (when swallow-tailed it may be described as a banderole [1]).It was charged with the heraldic badge or some other armorial ensign of the owner, and displayed on his own lance, as a personal ensign.
Upon the command make ready the musket was brought to the recover position (held vertically in front of the body with the trigger guard facing forward) and the cock (hammer) was drawn back to the full-cock position. Upon the command "P'sent" (present) the musket was brought up to the firing position in anticipation of the command fire.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
To "make one's bones" is an American English idiom meaning to take actions to establish achievement, status, or respect. [1] It is an idiomatic equivalent of "establish[ing] one's bona fides ". [ 2 ]