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house-flags

house-flags is the plural of house-flag.

Meaning of house-flag

Noun

house-flag (plural house-flags)

  1. A flag that uniquely identifies the company that owns or, occasionally, that operates a ship.
    • Her house-flag was flying, and her whistle from time to time acknowledged the salutes of friendly boats, who saw that she was new to the High and Narrow Seas and wished to make her welcome.1899, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work, page 84
  2. (broadly) A flag that identifies a company, unit, or other group.
    • In the school ground, I saw a boy of section B was given the responsibility of leading the march past with house-flag in his hands.2014, Prakash Sharma, Ohm, →ISBN, page 54

Questions about house-flags

What is house-flags the plural of?
House-flags is the plural of house-flag.

Words near house-flags in the dictionary

  1. house-detective
  2. house-detectives
  3. house-door
  4. house-doors
  5. house-flag
  6. house-flags
  7. house-green
  8. house-heating
  9. house-heatings
  10. house-hunt
  11. house-hunted

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