Favor/Token: Trinkets that ladies awarded to knights to denote him as her “champion” in a tournament; favors/tokens might include handkerchiefs, girdles, tassels, sleeves, gloves, scarves, ribbons, etc; these favors/tokens were worn in the knight’s helmet or about his arm and might be kept after the tournament or returned to the lady.
Here is a picture of a lady tying a favor around a knight's arm.
(God Speed, by Edmund Blair Leighton)
I have this painting hanging on my hall wall. My hubby jokes about what she could be saying. "Now don't forget to pick up a gallon of milk on the way home."
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