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It is a heraldic symbol carried on a flag or a shield from Latin 'Insignia' then meaning banner or flag, a soldier who carries the device and used in the very early 1500's. The word traveled from Latin into Old French as 'enseigne' and into Scotland. As for the navy, it became a commissioned officer of the lowest rank about 1886

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