| In Roman artwork, any vexillum which isn't just blank has only lettering on it. |
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| In 1855 the white chakra was dropped and thus the vexillum was a red field with a white elephant in the centre. |
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| Vexillology, the study of flags, takes its name from vexillum, the Latin for standard. |
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| The study of flags is known as vexillology, from the Latin vexillum meaning flag or banner. |
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| Many examples of the vexillum are represented in illuminated manuscripts. |
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| In these cases, the detached subunits carried only the vexillum, and not the aquila, and were called, therefore, vexillationes. |
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| One of the ships was the Mora, the Duke's ship given to him by the Duchess Matilda, which bore at the top of the mast a fanal blessed by the Pope, the famous vexillum sancti Petri. |
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| A miniature vexillum, mounted on a silver base, was sometimes awarded to officers as a recognition of their service upon retirement or reassignment. |
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| In fact, as a teenager, Smith himself coined the term vexillology, by combining the Latin word for flag, vexillum, with the Greek root for the study of logia. |
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| A vexillum beati Georgii is mentioned in the Genovese annals for the year 1198, referring to a red flag with a depiction of Saint George and the dragon. |
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| Each legion, furthermore, had a vexillifer who carried a vexillum or signum, with the legion name and emblem depicted on it, unique to the legion. |
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