i Register
In some senses, pennon is marked as literary, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
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:
A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.
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;
A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing.
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,