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Guidon
(gcide) | Guidon \Gui"don\, n. [F. guidon, It. guidone. See Guide, v.
t.]
1. A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry,
which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other,
or that used to direct the movements of a body of
infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a
guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each
company of cavalry has a guidon.
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The pendants and guidons were carried by the officer
of the army. --Evelyn.
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2. One who carries a flag. --Johnson.
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3. One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to
guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.
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GUIDON DE LA MER
(bouvier) | GUIDON DE LA MER, (LE). The name of a treatise on maritime law, written in
Rouen, then Normandy, in 1671, as is supposed. it was received on the
continent of Europe almost as equal in authority to one of the ancient codes
of maritime law. The author of this work is unknown. This tract or treatise
is contained in the Collection de Lois Maritimes," by J. M. Pardessus. vol.
2, p. 371, et seq.
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