'Palmetto flag' definitions:

Definition of 'Palmetto flag'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.]