- PRATIQUE FLAG
- See quarantine flag.
- PRAYER FLAG
- A small flag, often used in groups and decorated with inscriptions, intended
to express a prayer as it flies characteristic of Buddhists in the Himalayan
region (see also thangka and
religious flag).
- PRECEDENCE
- The system often regulated by law, of placing flags, emblems or coats of arms
for a display or ceremony in order of importance for more details see
Appendix II,
rules of etiquette and
position of honour (also
flag code and
flag law).
- PRE-HERALDIC
- A term that relates to European flags which do not contain any elements derived
from heraldry and/or which pre-date the introduction of heraldic symbolism. (see also
anti-heraldry,
dragon flag,
flammula 2),
gonfanon and
heraldry).
- PRESIDENTIAL (or PRESIDENTS) COLOUR (or COLOR)
- 1) See colour 2) and
colours 2).
- 2) In largely US usage, a term for the distinguishing flag of a president
when displayed indoors or on parade (see
presidential standard below).
- PRESIDENTIAL STANDARD (or FLAG)
- That flag which symbolizes the office of president in a republican system
of government, often a defaced or decorated version of the national flag (see
also deface,
national flag and
royal standard).
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USA Presidential Standard (fotw)
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Chile Presidential Standard (fotw)
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- PRIAPIC IN ITS VIRILITY
- A phrase sometimes used in heraldic blazoning when the male member of an animal is shown erect and in
a different tincture to its body (see also
blazon and
tincture).
Flag of Appenzell, Switzerland (fotw)
- PRINCELY BONNET (CORONET or HAT)
- See coronet 2).
National Flag of Liechtenstein bearing a Princely Bonnet (fotw)
- PRINCEFLAG (PRINCE FLAG, PRINCES FLAG, PRINSENVLAG or PRINZENVLAG)
- The name originally applied to the orange-white-blue horizontal tricolour that was the first
pattern of Dutch national flag, the driekleur, and in use from c1575 c1654/1660 the prinsenvlag
or prinzenvlag (see also
double-prince,
triple-prince and
tricolour 2)).
National Flag of the Netherlands c1575 c1654/1660 (CS)
Please note, evidence indicates that until the late 18th
Century the terms prinsenflag or prinzenvlag were sometimes also applied to the
red-white-blue tricolour.
- PRIVATE SHIP
- In British RN and some other naval usage, a vessel in commission that does
not fly the flag of a flag officer or broad pennant of a commodore (see also
broad pennant,
flag of command,
flag officer,
flagship and
masthead pennant 1)).
- PRIVATE SIGNAL
- 1) See call sign and
call sign hoist.
- 2) See house flag 3).
- 3) A naval term, now obsolete, for a confidential signal used by ships of
the same navy to verify each other's identity (see also
make her number).
- PRIVATEER(S)
- The term for a merchant vessel, or for the crew of such a vessel, holding a licence (or letter of marque)
from its government which entitled that vessel, or its crew, to attack the property of those countries
with whom they were at war - a practice now obsolete - see
privateer ensign and privateer jack.
- PRIVATEER (or PRIVATEERING) ENSIGN
- In Spanish usage and some others, now obsolete, a special ensign prescribed for vessels engaged
in privateering a corsair ensign see privateer(s) and
privateering jack (also
ensign 1) and
jolly roger 1)).
Privateer Ensign, Spain 1820 (fotw); Privateer Ensign Proposal 1819, Austria-Hungary (Fame)
- PRIVATEER (or PRIVATERING) JACK
- In UK usage, now obsolete, a special jack prescribed for vessels engaged in privateering and flown
from 1694 until 1856 the distinction jack
or budgee jack see privateer(s)
and privateer ensign (also
budgee flag,
budgee pendant,
jack and
union jack 2)).
Privateer Jack Until 1801, UK (CS); Privateer Jack 1801 1856, UK (fotw and CS)
- PRIZE FLAG
- A special flag flown by a yacht that has won a race (see also
racing flag).
- PROCESSIONAL BANNER
- See banner 3).
- PROPER
- The heraldic term used when a charge or figure is shown in its natural shape and colours, as
opposed to stylised heraldic colours or shapes (see also appendix III)
Flag of American Samoa (fotw); National Arms of Fiji (fotw)
- PROPORTIONS
- 1) The relationship between the width and length of a flag, usually expressed
in that order that is, for example 1:2, but sometimes also in the reverse or 2:1
the ratio or aspect ratio (see also dimensions',
length,
rectangle and
width)
- 2) The relative dimensions of two or more stripes or bands within a flag,
(whether disposed vertically horizontally or diagonally) - internal proportions
(see also optical proportions and
stripe).
- PROTEST BANNER
- See banner 3) (also
political flag 2)).
- PROTEST FLAG
- See political flag 2).
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- PROVINCIAL FLAG
- See sub-national flag and
state flag 2).
- PSEUDO-FLAG
- See fictitious flag (also
flagoid and
fictional flag).
- PULLDOWN (or PULL-DOWN)
- In US usage a flag (or bunting in flag colours) that is displayed flat against
a wall for decoration - an advertising pulldown (see also
bunting 2).
- PULLEY
- See sheaved block.
- PUMPOUT FLAG
- In US maritime usage, the colloquial term for a commercial flag that is flown to indicate the
location of a toilet waste disposal service for leisure vessels (see also
corporate flag).
(DNR news)
- PURPURE
- A heraldic term for the colour purple (see also
Appendix III and
rule of tincture).
- PUSHPIT FLAG STAFF
- A 19th Century term, now almost certainly obsolete, for the stern mounted ensign staff
of a sailing yacht (see also ensign staff).
Please note that pushpit (also called a stern pulpit) is nautical
slang for that railing which encloses the stern of a sailing yacht.
