revenue ensign

English

Flag of the United States Customs Service, now the CBP Ensign.

Noun

revenue ensign (plural revenue ensigns)

1. (US, historical) The flag of the United States Customs Service.
   • 1846, James Lindridge, Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea:

     It may not be generally known, that revenue ensigns have a crown and star in the fly, to distinguish them from those worn by vessels under the orders of the Admiralty.