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Gonfalons (?)

About these "gonfalons", are they really gonfalons?
I suppose that gonfalons are those used in Italy, a more or less rigid multiswallowtailed flag; these ukranian things with an "L" shaped pole are... "pendons"?
António Martins, 8 July 1999

My definition of a gonfalon would be that it is a vertically elongated flag hanging from a cross bar, usually with tails or a swallowtail.  What the site of Ukrainian Heraldry is illustrating, I would call framed flags.  My sources for these definitions are Whitney Smith and Alfred Znamierowski.
Andre Burgers, 10 June 2003

I guess that those are not "classical" gonfalones, but since the Ukrainians are calling them so, I will use this term too.
Dov Gutterman, 10 June 2003

The question is what do we consider more important: the shape of the flag or the actual use/purpose of the flag. As far as I understo