gonfalonier

[Italian gonfalon i ere.] A standard-bearer; the person intrusted with the public gonfalon in medieval Italian cities. "Was not the rotation, too, provided for by the annual election of her gonfalonier ?"-Bp. Wren: Monarchy A erted, ch. x. (1659). *gong (1), *gonge, *goonge, s. [A. S. gang =a going, a pa age, a privy.] [GANG.] 1. Going, motion. "Honden butes felinge, fet bute gonge ." Legend of St. Katharine , 499. 2. A privy, a jakes, a house of office. "As he com bi a gong Amidde the pit he hit slong." 3. A pit. Seven Sages , 1,315. "In helle gonge to ly on grounde." Coventry Mysteries, p. 345. 2043 -al .]