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  • noun Plural form of pencel.

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Examples

  • Behind the two brothers and their equerries rode the rest in their proper order -- knights, gentlemen, esquires, men-at-arms -- to the number, perhaps, of two hundred and fifty; spears and lances aslant, and banners, permons, and pencels of black and yellow fluttering in the warm September air.

    Men of Iron 1891

  • Behind the two brothers and their equerries rode the rest in their proper order -- knights, gentlemen, esquires, men-at-arms -- to the number, perhaps, of two hundred and fifty; spears and lances aslant, and banners, permons, and pencels of black and yellow fluttering in the warm

    Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

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