burgee
/bəːˈdʒiː
/noun
A flag bearing the colours or emblem of a sailing club, typically triangular.We exchanged handmade Valentines and flew heart burgees fashioned from old sails, scraps of red cloth and old jacklines for the hoists....
- This powerboater looks forward to knowing I'll have a welcome place at the dinner table the next time I see LISCA burgees rafted up on the Sound.
- I will need that photograph of Stephen in his uniform, along with my burgee and membership card, when I sail up to the docks of other yacht clubs.
Origin
Mid 18th century: perhaps from French bourgeois (see burgess) in the sense 'owner, master'.
Rhymes
- the proof of the pudding is in the eating
- the Prophet
- the Prophets
- the Psalms
- the public eye
- the Punjab
- the quantity theory of money
- the Quaternary
- the Queen
- Thera
- therap.
- therapeutic
- therapeutical
- therapeutic alliance
- therapeutically
- therapeutic touch
- therapeutist
- therapise
- therapist
- therapize
- therapsid
- the Rapture
- therapy
- the Rat Pack
- Theravada