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oriflamme|ˈɒrɪflæm|
Forms: 5 oriflam, -flame, -flamble, (aurisflambe), 5–6 oriflambe, 7 auriflambe, (oiliflame), 7– oriflamme, (9 oriflamb).
[a. F. oriflamme, OF. oriflambe (11th c.); also ori-, oli-, -flamble, -flam, -flan, -flant, in Pr. auriflamma, -flan, -flor, It. oriflamma, med.L. auriflamma; f. L. aur-um, F. or gold + flamma flame.]
1. The sacred banner of St. Denis, a banderole of two or (according to some accounts) three points, of red or orange-red silk, attached to a lance, which the early kings of France used to receive from the hands of the abbot of St. Denis, on setting out for war.
‘Oriflambe: the great and holie Standerd of France; 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’ (Cotgrave).
1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 13 Ser Geffrey Chauny that bare the baner of the oriflamble. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xx. 452 Whan Reynawd sawe the oryflame of France com. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. 72 Whan this precyous Relyke or Aurisflambe was borne agayne Cristen Princes, the vertue therof seasyd, and lastly was lost, but yet the lyke therof is kept at Seynt Denys. Ibid. vii. 467 Sir Reynolde Camyan baneret..bare the oryflambe, a speciall relyke that the Frenshe kynges vse to bere before them in all battayles. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxii. 720 It is nedefull that we..apoynt..who shall beare the Oriflambe of France. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §92. 689 An hallowed Banner of red silke, whereof the French had a wonderfull high conceit, as of that which was sent from heauen, and called Oreflame or Auriflames. 1794J. Gifford Reign Louis XVI 503 The oriflamme, or grand standard of the king. 1822K. Digby Broadst. Hon. (1846) 63 note, The Oriflamme..was the banner of the abbey [of St. Denis]. The last that we hear of it is in the inventory of the treasury of this church in 1534. 1865Nichols in Herald & Genealogist III. 7 At a later period, the Oriflamme was sometimes powdered with golden flakes of fire, as it is represented in the Indice Armorial of Louvain Geliot. 1871Longfellow Wayside Inn, Baron St. Castine 69 The Curate..draws from the pocket of his gown A handkerchief like an oriflamb.
2. transf. and fig.
a. Something which serves the purpose of the Oriflamme of St. Denis; any banner or ensign, material or ideal, that serves as a rallying point for a struggle, etc.
1600W. Watson Decacordon A iij b, Did not then the primitives of the East Church..carry away the auriflambe of all religious zeale. 1824Macaulay Ivry 30 And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre! 1853Lytton My Novel viii. i, If his heart match his head, and both proceed in the Great March under a divine Oriflamme. 1864Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 262 The North has not hoisted for its oriflamme the Sacred Symbol of Justice to the negro. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust i. i. 47 All Hell displays its oriflamme. 1885Standard 26 May 5/5 [There] will be reared masts bearing the oriflammes of the town [Paris].
b. Something which suggests the Oriflamme of St. Denis by its golden, bright, or conspicuous colouring, position, etc.
1862Whittier Waiting, The golden spears uprise Beneath the oriflamme of day! 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 17 The new-bathed Day With oriflamme uplifted o'er the peaks. 1879Helen Rich Invocation in Poems of Places, Br. America. etc. 84 All the azure archway streams With oriflamme of gems and gold. 1895M. Blind Birds of Passage, Agnostic ii, Spring's Oriflamme of flowers waves from the Sod. |