- CAR FLAG (or PENNANT)
- A flag or pennant, sometimes in metal or other non-flexible material, designed specifically
to be flown from a car an automobile flag.
General officer, Germany 1941 45 (fotw)
Please note that the practice of flying a car flag
or pennant was previously (usually but not exclusively) limited to that carrying a head of state,
government official or military officer, however, the practice has arisen whereby
such flags are available as sports flags and may also be displayed by a funeral
cortege. Formerly sometimes flown from the radiator cap, a car flag is now more
usually seen on the right front fender, wing/mudguard (or often on both front fenders)
but there is a suggestion that the two positions might also previously have indicated
differences in the rank of the occupant. It is usually flown from a short metal
staff, or from a clip-on, window mounted staff, or from the radio antenna (see also
funeral flags).
- CARROCERUM (CARROCIUM or CARROCIUS)
- An alternative medieval term, now obsolete, for the cart upon which the standard
was placed (see also altema,
gajardus and
standard 6)).
- CARTEL FLAG
- In obsolete UK and some other usage, a flag or one of a pair of flags, that
mark a vessel involved in the exchange of prisoners (see also
flag of truce).
- CARTOUCHE
- 1) In heraldry, an oval escutcheon often used (but not exclusively so) by Italian clergymen (see also
escutcheon).
- 2) On flags as above, and a term that now covers a usually (but not invariably)
oval plaque or frame containing heraldic insignia, and occasionally a date or
motto (see also motto and
ring).
![[cartouche]](../images/v/vxt-d069.gif)
From left: Detail, Spain (CS); Andorra (fotw)
- CASE
- 1) A narrow sleeve-like sack, usually of some decorative, waterproof, material
used in order to protect a regimental, unit, service or national colour when outdoors
and furled (see also colour 2) and
furl).
- 2) (v) The act of placing the furled colour into its case (see also
uncase).
- CASKET FLAG
- See pall flag.
- CASTING THE COLOURS
- See flag tossing.
- CATERFOIL
- See quatrefoil 2).
- CAVALIER (or CAVALIERS) CROSS
- See cross pattιe in appendix VIII.
- CELTIC CROSS
- The term for a cross used by the ancient Celtic church (and now by a number of neo-nazi
movements) that does not usually reach the edges of a shield, canton, panel or flag, but which
is displayed with a ring or annulet crossing all four arms (see also
cross 2) and
ring).
Stiωbhart's Pan-Celtic flag, UK (fotw); Flag of the Church
in Wales (fotw); Flag of the Ultra-Right, France (fotw)
- CENDAL
- See sendal.
- CENTRED (or CENTERED)
- The term used when a charge is set in the geometric or visual centre of a flag or the panel
it occupies see visual centre (also
inset,
off-set towards and
off-centred).
- CENTRED CROSS
- See cross 1) (also centred above).
- CEREMONIAL ENSIGN
- An ensign flown by naval ships and over naval or military establishments
on Sundays or days of national or service celebration (see also
Sunday ensign
and garrison flag).
Please note this term does not refer to flags
used on parade or those made for indoor display, but to flags and ensigns that are
identical with their everyday equivalents except for size and/or care of manufacture
(see also parade flag
and indoor flag).
- CEREMONIAL FLAG
- 1) In largely East and Central European usage, a term employed to describe those sub-national flags that
are for display on occasions of local significance, and which are often a gonfanon or a more elaborate form
of the normal flag a festive banner or flag (see also
banner 4),
gonfanon,
official flag 2),
state service flag and
sub-national flag).
- 2) See ceremonial standard below.
Flag and Ceremonial Flag of Malopolska, Poland (fotw); Flag and Ceremonial Flag of Zagan, Poland (fotw)
Please note with regard to 1), not to be confused with a flag of ceremony (the Spanish bandera
de ceremonia) which is designed for exclusively indoor use see
indoor flag.
Also please note with regard to 1), that in East and Central European usage
the ceremonial flag of a community is often created as a unique flag see
unique flag.
- CEREMONIAL STANDARD
- A term for the standard, or flag, flown on royal ceremonial occasions in (as far as
can be discovered) Kelantan, Malaysia in place of the individual standards of any royal
family member present (see also
royal standard 1),
royal standard 2) and
standard 1)).
![[ceremonial standard]](../images/v/vxt-d565.gif)
Ceremonial Standard of Kelantan, Malaysia (fotw)
- CEREMONIAL STATE ENSIGN
- A term for the ensign, possibly obsolete, flown (in place of a standard state ensign) on
ceremonial state occasions by government entities at sea (see also
government ensign under
ensign).
Please note that, as far as can be discovered, Johore, Malaysia
is the only country which may currently still use such a flag.
![[ceremonial ensign]](../images/v/vxt-d566.gif)
Ceremonial State Ensign, Johore, Malaysia (fotw)
- CEREMONY OF CONSECRATION
- See consecration.
