pentice

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And o'er their heads an iron pentice vast

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  1. A sloping roof projecting from an outer wall, or constructed over a door to shelter it; an awning over a door or window; a penthouse. See appentice and penthouse. And ore their heads an iron pentise vast They built, by ioyning many a shield and targe. Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, xi. 33. Every street of speciall note being on both sides thereof, from the pentices of their houses to the lower end of the wall, hanged with rich cloth of arras. Coryat, Crudities, I. 38, sig. D.

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  • And o'er their heads an iron pentice vast —  Jerusalem Delivered
  • _ (Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints. —  Ulysses
  • There, on its wooded height, the pentice roofs glistening in the sunlight, stood Chinon, with its triple castle, so full of the memories of history; and all around spread the wide Tourangeais. —  Orrain A Romance
 

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  1. Also pentise; from Middle English pentice, pentis (Anglo-French pentiz), by apheresis for apentis, from Old French apentis, appentis, a shed; see appentice and penthouse.
 

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