Pennon vs Pennoned - What's the difference?
pennon | pennoned |
A thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
* 1909 , Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor , page 65:
(nautical) A pennant; a long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.
A wing; a pinion.
set with one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.)
*{{quote-book, year=1842, author=Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., title=The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep Their vigil on the green; One seems to guard, and one to weep, The dead that lie between; And both roll out, so full and near, Their music's mingling waves, They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear Leans on the narrow graves. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Lorraine, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Whenever he saw the schapskas and lances he would be cautious; when these lances were pennoned with black and white, and when the schapskas and schabraques were edged with yellow, he would keep out of the way altogether. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Olive T. Dargan, title=Path Flower and Other Verses, chapter=, edition=
, passage=From each pennoned pinnacle Of the cities of the free, Clasped in time invisible, Flows the wonder flown to thee; Thou so swift to throb and start With the singing earth's new heart! }}
As a noun pennon
is a thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.As an adjective pennoned is
set with one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc).pennon
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Noun
(en noun)- Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* pennoncelpennoned
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