battle flag

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   a flag that leads troops into battle

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Questions about battle flag

What does battle flag mean?

battle flag means "a flag that leads troops into battle".

Is battle flag a common word?

battle flag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.