Insignia and Standard

Insignia

Insignia noun - A badge worn to show official position.

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Standard and insignia are semantically related In some cases you can use "Standard" instead a noun "Insignia".

Standard noun - A piece of cloth with a special design that is used as an emblem or for signaling.

Usage example: a ship flying the queen's standard

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Insignia and standard are semantically related in flag topic. Sometimes you can use "Insignia" instead a noun "Standard".

old	old insignia	old standard
usual	usual insignia	usual standard
original	original insignia	original standard
small	small insignia	small standard
Other adjectives: actual, personal, new, military, classic, different, modern.

SS members are immediately recognizable by their ominous all-black uniforms (which were only dress uniforms; in the field, they wore standard fatigues, albeit with special insignia).

Source: Those Wacky Nazis
This is in marked contrast to the books, where there is no standard uniform for any of the factions beyond a garment bearing some version of your Lord's insignia.

Source: Faceless Goons
The field uniform on Feldgrau fabric was the standard design of the Wehrmacht, with different insignia for each arm of service and made by dozens of factories - of which Hugo Boss had been the first, as an old-time political and financial supporter of the Nazi party, but not the only one.

Source: Sukhomlinov Effect

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