0 a flag that is waved to show that you accept defeat or do not intend to attack:
1 a white cloth that is a symbol of defeat or of giving up on something
The hands that held the white flag of peace were undoubtedly sanctified.
It was, perhaps, a somewhat inauspicious omen at this early stage that they should have mast-headed the white flag.
I do not need a white flag, an orange flag or a flag of any other colour.
That was why they hauled up the white flag: they had lost the argument.
The truth is that he hoisted the flag of insurrection for 18 hours and then threw up the white flag of surrender.
They would run up the white flag on every one of our fishing boats.
The white flag was raised to allow citizens to escape.
Her policy smacks far more of the green flag than the white flag.
