NOUN
- flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce
How To Use flag of truce In A Sentence
- Cornet Richard Grahame descended the hill, bearing in his hand the extempore flag of truce, and making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to the tune which he whistled. Old Mortality
- The commodore had been ordered to diplomatise, and so he did in the most effectual way, for we all sailed in with a flag of truce flying, but with the guns run out and the men at their quarters. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
- The Dragoons arrived on the battlefield and sent a party forward under a flag of truce.
- As the last English galley sinks below the waves, an English emissary arrives at Bangalore under a white flag of truce.
- Presently a flag of truce was hoisted from the top of this fort. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
