bannerlike

English

Etymology

From banner +‎ -like.

Adjective

bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)

1. Resembling a banner
   • 2000 October 27, Fred Camper, “Language of Nature”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     In the center of Flag are five bannerlike horizontal colored bands, each containing a row of plants--but this flag is no fixed symbolic entity.

   • 2008 August 24, Alessandra Stanley, “Plus-Size Sideshow”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.

Adverb

bannerlike (comparative more bannerlike, superlative most bannerlike)

1. So as to resemble a banner
   • 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 1:

     He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.