Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STREAM'ER
STREAM'ER, n.
An ensign or flag; a pennon extended or flowing in the wind; a poetic use of the word. Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. – Dryden. Auroral streamer, a luminous beam or column; one of the forms of the Aurora Borealis.
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