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Dannebrog   Listen
noun
Dannebrog  n.  The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown.
Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood.





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... harvest-fields, gathers a colossal fortune, 100,000 pounds, 300,000 pounds, or I will not remember what. Gets "ennobled," furthermore, by a Danish Government prompt to recognize human merit: Elephant Order, Dannebrog Order; no Order good enough for this Mouldy-man of merit; [Preuss, ii. 391, 282, &c.]—and is, so far as I know, begetting "Nobles," that is to say, Vice-Kings and monitory Exemplars, for the Danish People, to this ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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