Pencel vs Pence - What's the difference?
pencel | pence |
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* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 86:
(obsolete) A lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.
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(British) (the sub-unit of the pound sterling).
English irregular plurals
As nouns the difference between pencel and pence
is that pencel is a small pennon while pence is plural of lang=en (the sub-unit of the pound sterling).pencel
English
Alternative forms
* pinsel (chiefly Scottish) * pensill (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation
- Inside Worcester Cathedral, the coffin was transferred to its hearse, a vast, storeyed, wooden structure, painted black and adorned with heraldic escutcheons, badged pennants or ‘pencels ’, silk standards of St George, banners of the royal arms of England and Spain, and of Arthur's various titles, from Wales to Ponthieu in Normandy.