noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between her first and second missions she was commissioned an ensign in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.
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By contrast the courtesy ensign has become more of a duty than a courtesy.
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Dogwell was big and looked as if he would have liked to tie the ensign into some kind of handy knot.
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On a long cruise the courtesy ensigns can cost more than the charts and wear out quicker.
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Shaker gave a loose salute, and the grinning ensign tapped his forehead with a finger.
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The airship's charred ensign hangs in the nearby church.
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The average yachtsmen lashes his ensign to the backstay, and there it stays until it rots.
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They'd piled him in with the dead, and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching.