ensigns in English

noun
1
a flag or standard, especially a military or naval one indicating nationality.
The Blue Ensign is not the ensign of the Royal Naval Reserve as such, as is sometimes stated.
synonyms:flagstandardcolor(s)bannerpennantpennonstreamerbanderole
2
a commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the US Navy and Coast Guard, ranking above chief warrant officer and below lieutenant.
All Sailors will be given a clear career roadmap, outlining how they progress from seaman to master chief, or from ensign to admiral.
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1. Yacht club Ensigns & Burgees

2. We'll have seven gunners and the ensigns at half-mast.

3. Synonyms for Bannerets include banners, ensigns, pennants, pennons, standards, streamers, guidons, oriflammes, banderols and banderoles

4. Synonyms for Banderoles include banners, standards, flags, pennants, ensigns, streamers, pennons, jacks, pendants and guidons

5. On a long cruise the courtesy ensigns can cost more than the charts and wear out quicker.

6. Synonyms for Banderols include banners, flags, standards, pennants, ensigns, streamers, pennons, banderoles, jacks and pendants

7. The rank flags and ensigns of the Imperial Japanese Navy also based their designs on the naval ensign.

8. That happened when the Roman army, with its ensigns, attacked Jerusalem and its temple, which the Jews considered holy.

9. Tovey could not cease fire until the Germans struck their ensigns or it became clear they were abandoning ship.

10. Yacht Club Burgees & Pennants, Yacht Club Signals, Private Signals, Marina Flags, Ensigns Fast Quotes, Expert Advice, Art Service Available, Rush Service Available

11. A grant of arms or a matriculation (registration of Armorial bearings) may in its text use the term ensigns Armorial to mean the heraldic design of …

12. “My soul Cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.” “My soul Cleaveth unto the dust.” He means in part that he was full of sorrow; for mourners in the east cast dust on their heads, and sat in ashes, and the Psalmist felt as if these ensigns of woe were glued to him, and his