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Red Ensign

noun

  1. the ensign of the British Merchant Navy, having the Union Jack on a red background at the upper corner of the vertical edge alongside the hoist Compare White Ensign Blue Ensign
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Always at anchor off the citys front are at least a dozen European steamers, most of them flying the red ensign.

At that moment he caught sight of the red ensign flying at the fore, and asked the captain to give him one like it.

She looked like a collier, and flew the red ensign of England; but Henry knew her.

The boy ran aft and in a few seconds the red ensign fluttered up the flagstaff, and drooped in the still air.

From a flagstaff at the pierhead the red ensign of England was displayed.

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