Definitions for "Vexilloid"
Keywords:  legion, forerunner, emblem, flag, roman
a rigid sign carried on a pole, especially those used by ancient Roman legions as unit identifiers; the forerunners of modern flags.
An emblem, either solid ( such as the standard of a Roman legion) or cloth (such as a flag)
1) A rigid emblem (such as a carved animal or similar) mounted on a pole, which fulfils the function of a flag but which is not a flag, and characteristic (but not exclusively so) of traditional societies – not to be confused with a tufa (see also ‘ tugh' and ‘ tufa'). 2) As above, but the forerunner of the flag as in the Nome standards of ancient Egypt, the Semeia of classical Greece or in the Eagles of a Roman legion (see also ‘ eagle 2)', ‘ Semeion' and ‘ standard 5)'). 3) See ‘ standard 6)'.
Keywords:  whitney, smith, defined
As defined by Whitney Smith, a vexilloid is