flag of truce

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   flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce

   Synonymswhite flag

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Questions about flag of truce

What does flag of truce mean?

flag of truce means "flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce".

What is another word for flag of truce?

Close synonyms include white flag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flag of truce a common word?

flag of truce 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.