bunting

/ˈbʌntɪŋ/

Other forms: buntings

Bunting is a type of loosely woven fabric with a specific purpose: making flags. When you salute a flag, you're saluting bunting. Who knew?

Bunting is known for two main features: it is loosely woven, and it is used primarily in making flags. Bunting is strong enough to last, but versatile enough to be perfect in making the intricate designs many flags feature. Before it becomes a flag, bunting makes for splendid decoration when hung or draped festively. Bunting is also a synonym for flag.

Definitions of bunting

1. noun

   any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
   types:

   Passerina cyanea, indigo bird, indigo bunting, indigo finch

   small deep blue North American bunting

   Emberiza hortulana, ortolan, ortolan bunting

   brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy

   Emberiza schoeniclus, reed bunting

   European bunting inhabiting marshy areas

   Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting, yellowhammer

   European bunting the male being bright yellow

   Emberiza aureola, yellow-breasted bunting

   common in Russia and Siberia

   Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowbird, snowflake

   white Arctic bunting

   type of:

   finch

   any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
2. noun

   a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
   type of:

   cloth, fabric, material, textile

   artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers