1. Plural of bannerol; long, narrow flags or streamers, often bearing inscriptions or heraldic designs.
Usage: Also spelled 'banderols'; Commonly used in historical, heraldic, and decorative contexts
2. In architecture and art, decorative bands or scrolls bearing text, names, or mottos, often depicted in paintings and sculptures.
Usage: Architectural and artistic term

Examples

• The medieval tournament featured knights carrying colorful bannerols that displayed their family crests.
• The artist painted bannerols across the top of the altarpiece with Latin inscriptions.
• Silk bannerols hung from the castle walls during the royal celebration.
• The heraldic bannerols in the museum exhibit showed the symbols of noble houses.
• Renaissance paintings often included decorative bannerols to frame important text or names.