pennon

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Each bore upon him her gift--pennon, or sleeve, or ring.

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  1. noun A long narrow banner or streamer borne upon a lance.
  2. noun A pennant, banner, or flag.
  3. noun A pinion; a wing.

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  • It was easy enough to imagine lance and pennon, and the dead from a thousand battle-fields repeating history. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • There is an ermine pennon, and the foremost knight hath a circlet on his helm Pray God it so be! —  The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
  • Regnar drew it from the ice, and looked searchingly at flag and shaft; the pennon was of crimson, without lettering or private signal, but on the pole was scorched in deep, black characters, the legend "Str. —  Adrift in the Ice-Fields
  • I spy neither banner nor pennon, and yet I will gage my golden chain that they are led by some noble knight or gentleman skillful in the practice of wars I espy him," said De Bracy; "I see the waving of a knight's crest and the gleam of his armor. —  The Literary World Seventh Reader
  • My own white pennon was the centre of some furious struggle. —  A Heroine of France
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  1. Middle English, from Old French penon, streamer, feather of an arrow, augmentative of penne, feather, from Latin penna; see pet- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also penon; from Middle English penon, penoun, pynoun, from Old French pennon, French pennon = Provencal peno, penon = Spanish pendon = Portuguese pendão = Italian pennone, a banner, pennon, orig. (as in Italian) a great plume or bunch of feathers, augmentative of Old French penne = Italian penna, a wing;, feather: see pen. Cf. pinion, ult. identical with pennon and pennant (a later form).
 

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