'ensign' is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used word in written English.
It is most often used to refer to an official flag of a country or a military rank. For example, "The ensign of the United States Navy is a dark blue field featuring the white stars and stripes of the American Flag."
Well over his head, officers with "scrambled egg" on their chests did not worry until too late about the thinness of her deck-armour.Roll out the barrelOn May 23rd 1941 the Hood hoisted her battle ensign.
Its image became the official ensign of West Papua during a ten-month period from 1961 to 1962, when the region gained its independence from the Netherlands.
It already has ten ships flying Britain's red ensign and five under the flag of Singapore.In this section Social graph-iti Sukhoi's phoenix Programmed for a fight Flagging off Locusts in lederhosen Mall rats Smooth operator Reprints Related items Shipping: On the crest of a wave?Jul 22nd 2004That is exactly what the government wants to avoid.
It had already adopted the self-declared caliphate's black ensign as well as tactics such as the beheading of captives and the webcasting of propaganda videos.In this section The last mile Can hell be frozen over?
Mr Fearon and Richard McCabe's brilliantly realised ensign feed off each other: so much so, that in their great poison-dropping scenes together it is difficult to tell which is the madder.
Most of the 30 or so vessels hoisting the Falklands' flag a British red ensign with a coat-of-arms featuring a ram and tussock grass belong to Spanish fishing companies.
The British East India Company's ships flew an ensign incorporating the Union Jack.
And after the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992 he firmly took on Daryl Gates and the whole city police department, forcing reforms on them.The rough and the smoothUnlike most of the Clintonistas he had seen war up close, observing the desperate, aimless crowds in ruined Japan as a naval ensign in 1945.
But the Islamists' green ensign, hoisted over government buildings all over Gaza after they wrested control of the strip this month from forces loyal to Mr Abbas's Fatah party, has been replaced once again by the Palestinians' four-coloured national flag.For now, Gaza is quieter than it has been for months.
The eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Lucan, Lord Bingham was educated at Westminster and was commissioned an ensign in 1816, rising to a lieutenant-colonelcy by 1826 (which he held until 1837) and seeing service with the Russians in the Balkans (1828).
