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Pensel vs Pencel - What's the difference?

pensel | pencel |

As nouns the difference between pensel and pencel

is that pensel is obsolete form of lang=en while pencel is a small pennon.

pensel

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • (Chaucer)
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    pencel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pinsel (chiefly Scottish) * pensill (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, 1483, (w), Letters of the Kings of England, chapter=(letter to Piers Courteis), year_published=1846, page=153 citation
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  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 86:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) A lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.
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