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Crosspiece vs Gonfalon - What's the difference?

crosspiece | gonfalon |

As nouns the difference between crosspiece and gonfalon

is that crosspiece is a horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something while gonfalon is a standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.

crosspiece

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
  • (label) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

    • gonfalon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gonfalone * gonfanon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , book 5, lines 588–590:
    • Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd,
    Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
    Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
  • * 1910 , July 12, (Franklin Pierce Adams), poem “That Double Play Again” aka “(w, Baseball's Sad Lexicon)”, (New York Evening Mail) , page 6:
    • Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
    Making a Giant hit into a double—
    Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
    “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
  • * 1922 , , Quest :
    • With vermilion leaf or bronze—
    Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons —