Banderole (Fr. for a "little banner") is a small flag or streamer carried on the lance of a knight, or flying from the mast-head of a ship in battle, etc.* in heraldry, a streamer hanging from beneath the crook of a bishop's crosier and folding over the staff in art, especially in the Middle Ages a speech scroll or streamer carried by or surrounding a figure, for bearing an inscription, typically the name of or a quotation from the figure depicted, though many are blank and were decorative and… (More on Banderole)