{"id":618,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/pennant\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:27","slug":"pennant","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/glossary\/pennant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **pennant** is a long, narrow, tapering flag, usually triangular or with a swallow-tailed fly. Pennants are used at sea as signals, as commissioning pennants on warships, and ashore for decoration and identification. The commissioning pennant of a navy ship, flown continuously throughout its commission, is one of the most enduring uses of the form.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: A long, narrow commissioning pennant flies day and night from the masthead of a warship in commission and is hauled down only when she is paid off.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [pennon](\/glossary\/pennon\/), [burgee](\/glossary\/burgee\/), [signal-flag](\/glossary\/signal-flag\/), [swallow-tail](\/glossary\/swallow-tail\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-618","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}