"Angely s labarami"?

[Alina Israeli]

>M. Vrubel' painted a painting called "Angely s labarami". What are 
>labary? How is the word pronounced (lAbary, labAry, labarY)? What is 
>its gender in the singular? Where does the word come from? It is 
>missing in all the dictionaries I can find.

Here's the explanation from one site: Архангел держит в правой руке 
сферу, а в левой - знамя-лабар. 
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=ru&mst_id=979

So it's a banner.
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Alina Israeli
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Washington, DC 20016

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