Meaning of pennon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
2. A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.
3. A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing.
   literary, obsolete

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Examples

“Her yellow lockes crisped, like⟳ golden wyre, About her shoulders weren loosely shed⟳, And when the winde emongst them did inspyre, They waued like⟳ a penon wyde dispred And low behinde her backe were scattered:”

“Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land⟳ With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:”

“[…] in spite of a sort⟳ of screen intended to protect⟳ them from the wind, the flame of the torches streamed sideways into the air, like⟳ the unfurled pennon of a chieftain.”

“Precisely in the middle of the quadrangle were placed perpendicularly in the ground, a hundred or more slender, fresh-cut poles, stripped of their bark, and decorated at the end⟳ with a floating pennon of white tappa;”

“1863, Christina Rossetti, “A Royal Princess” in Isa Craig (ed.), An Offering to Lancashire, London: Emily Faithfull, p. 3, Vassal counts and princes follow⟳ where his pennon goes,”

“Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points.”

“In 1821 the hobby-horse could have⟳ a real mane and a pretty topknot of wire, pennons and bells but with no wheels at the back.”

“1631, Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 21, … a ship most neatly that was lim’d, In all her sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d.”

“1780, Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Arragon, London: L. Davis et al., Fair Commerce wav’d her pennons in our ports;”

“[…] as his eye swept the horizon, clear against the rosy sky shone the white sails of a ship, so near that they could see⟳ the pennon at her mast-head and black figures moving on the deck.”

“1630, Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies, London: Francis Constable, “The Religion of the Persees,” Chapter 4, p. 16, […] sodainly there descended before him, as his face⟳ was bent towards the earth, an Angell, whose wings had glorious Pennons, and whose face⟳ glistered as the beames of the Sunne,”

“Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he [Satan] drops Ten thousand fadom deep,”

“Favonius gentle skims along the Grove, And sheds sweet Odors from his Pennons light⟳.”

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