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burgee

noun

Definition of burgee

as in semaphore

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Recent Examples of burgee One tattoo of goats with a Bayview Yacht Club flag, known as a burgee, signifies his first 25 races from Port Huron to Mackinac. — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2021 The men, down to a 7-year-old sailor named Hank, had gold buttons on their blue blazers and red neckties bearing the club burgee. — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2021 Outside was given a nautical motif with burgees placed in flowering pots, flags hanging from railings highlighting blue-and-white life preservers personalized with the debs' names. — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017 The county seal appears on a light blue burgee, which is considered to be the first Ohio county flag that is the same shape as the Ohio flag. — cleveland.com, 13 July 2017

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Noun

The Jeep struck a semaphore pole, severing the vehicle in two.

— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2026
But even for an expert, fluency in the complex language of corner semaphore isn’t an essential for youngsters enjoying the game at grassroots level.

— Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025

Definition of semaphore

Noun

Protesters were on New Delhi's streets until the evening, singing, sloganeering, waving the Indian tricolor flag.

— Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 July 2026
The tricolor at the top of both the badge and the shield represents the colors of the Italian flag.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026

Definition of tricolor

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Competitive admission to the academy, rank insignia on every uniform, exactly one captain per ship.

— Gautam Mukunda, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026
Other insignias were created for lower ranks—some rendered in silver, others in gold—but in the decade following the American Civil War, the current color scheme had become largely fixed.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of insignia

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One minute we were thrown up on a crest and could see the inferno of foaming water stretching away on all sides.

— JAMES D. OXLEY, Outdoor Life, 5 Aug. 2026
The evacuation zone from the Sierra Nevada crest to Highway 395 was expanded to the north on Friday evening because of the new Cinder Complex, whose largest fires are designated as 5-3 and 5-4.

— Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 27 July 2026

Definition of crest

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Externally, the move to trade away one of the league’s top scorers is seen as waving the white flag on yet another disappointing season.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
With 50 games to go after the deadline, the Tigers insist that trading one of the best pitchers on the planet plus another key part of their top-notch rotation does not constitute waving the white flag.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of white flag

Noun

Both films currently boast a Certified Fresh badge on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a respective 90% and 94% approval rating from critics.

— Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
While Hassabis is keeping his badge, some other prominent Google personnel have coincidentally announced their departure from the company at the same time.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026

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