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In some senses, pennon is marked as literary, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
blue
VERB + PENNON
like, unfurled
PENNON + NOUN
chieftain
PREP.
from
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,
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 sc
WiktionaryBar Harry England, that sweeps through our land With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:
Wiktionary[…] 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.
WiktionaryThe knight had a blue pennon hanging from the end of his lance.
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In some senses, pennon is marked as literary, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.