palmetto flag

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palmetto flag - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Palmetto flag \Pal*met"to flag\
     Any of several flags adopted by South Carolina after its
     secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green
     cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final
     one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a
     blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand
     corner.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]