英:['ɒrɪflæm]
美:['ɒrəˌflæm]
英:['ɒrɪflæm]
美:['ɒrəˌflæm]
or·i·flamme
o r flaem [or] a r flaem
圣丹尼斯神圣的旗帜,15世纪中期, oriflamble,源自古法语 orie flambe,源自拉丁语 aurea flamma “金色火焰”。这是法国国王的古老战斗标志,据说是由圣丹尼斯修道院院长在出征前赠送给国王的,用红色或橙红色的丝绸制成,有两个或三个尖角。Cotgrave 说它最初“只在对抗异教徒的战争中使用,但后来在所有其他战争中使用; 最终在与佛兰德斯人的一场战斗中彻底失落了。”它最后一次出现在1534年的一份修道院清单中。
Middle English oriflamble, the banner of St. Denis, from Middle French, from Old French ori flambe, small flag
The first known use of oriflamme was in 1600
1 Paul went to meet this phenomenon, and from the train Mr. Warr of the Nonconformist printing-office stepped out, carrying the work of art before him like an oriflamme.
2 For him ambition blazed like an oriflamme and he had dared to gamble everything on his belief in himself.
3 Love to God and man is her creed, self-abnegation her crown, faith her oriflamme, strength her gift, life her guerdon, and immortality her portion.
4 The moon, as bright and handsome as a new twenty-dollar piece, carried herself straight before us,—a splendid oriflamme.
5 Louis then went with his brothers, Robert of Artois and Charles of Anjou, to the church of Saint Denis to receive his pilgrim's scrip and staff, and the oriflamme, or sacred banner of Saint Denis.
6 He has become a sort of symbol, even a sort of fetish, and he is to English sentiment what Charles Péguy is to France, an oriflamme of the chivalry of his country.
7 A few gas-burners hardly light up the swarming crowd; and at the farther end, almost hidden by the shadow of the vaults, hangs the figure of Christ draped in the popular oriflamme.
8 Your oriflamme shall wave While man has power to perish and be free— A golden flame of holiest liberty, Proud as the dawn and as the sunset brave.
9 But not for long thine oriflamme could bear That symbol of an outworn trust in kings.
10 Seeing with dismay the oriflamme waving over the sea of tents which, "like a great and populous city," covered the right bank, the soldiers of Henry retreated precipitately to Saintes.
11 "By Jove, yes," he said, "oriflammes and hell fire."
12 No oriflamme of battle Is that false radiance round yon impish brow.
13 By "common sense" we mean the faculty which instinctively selects the common prejudices of its age as oriflammes to follow on Life's battlefield.
14 Sew us for shroud round face and name, God's banner of the oriflamme.
15 We must win the crown immortal, Follow where they led before, Where the oriflamme is burning, On the starlit Eden shore.
16 It was doubtless unique in the district and familiar: an oriflamme of battle over the barter of dairy produce and malt liquors.
17 At remote intervals the oriflamme of the spiritual conception of nature has flashed athwart the intervals of gross materialism, but religion, moral conduct, not knowledge, has been the motive.
18 The Spanish and Portuguese pioneers presently showed signs of lassitude, but the northern nations—even more vigorous and audacious—instantly sprang to the front and carried forward the proud oriflamme of white expansion and world-dominion.
19 It was akin to the pawing of the mediaeval charger when he knew it near the time for the oriflamme to be advanced.
20 Again, as in the time of Washington, the Nation may look to these West Virginia hills, and plant here the oriflamme of freedom.