- a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc.
- patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
- flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.
- any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax.
- a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
- a coarse, loosely woven cotton fabric used for flags, etc
- decorative flags, pennants, and streamers
- flags collectively, esp those of a boat
- any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of the families Fringillidae (finches, etc) or Emberizidae, esp those of the genera Emberiza of the Old World and Passerina of North America. They all have short stout bills
- Basil . 1900–85, British poet, author of Briggflatts (1966)
