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Meaning of pensile | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈpɛnsaɪl

Definitions

Hanging down, suspended.

Equivalents

Italiano pensile pensile
Latina pensilis

Examples

“However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.”
“Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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