A variant form of BANDEROLE (q.v.), found in all senses, and regularly used in that of: A banner about a yard square, borne at the funerals of great men, and placed over the tomb.
1548. Hall, Chron. Hen. V., an. 10. CCC persons holdyng long torches, and lordes bearyng baners, banerols and penons.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 206. King Oswald had a banneroll of gold and purple … set over his tombe.
1670. F. Sandford, Funeral Dk. Albemarle (1722), 28. The ten Bannerols were offered by Pairs.
1721. Lond. Gaz., No. 5930/2. Six Banner-Rolls being carried on the Sides of the Herse by six Gentlemen.
1852. Gentl. Mag., CXXII. II. 592. Bannerols are banners of increased width, so made in order to display … the most distinguished alliances from which the deceased was descended.
