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.2000 October 27, Fred Camper, “Language of Nature”, in Chicago Reader:
On talk shows Mr. Huckabee would hold up his campaign pledges and the bannerlike size 50 pants he wore in his previous life.2008 August 24, Alessandra Stanley, “Plus-Size Sideshow”, in New York Times:
bannerlike
adv
Etymology From banner + -like.
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So as to resemble a banner
He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.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: