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pencel
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[ pen-suhl ]
noun
- a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
pencel
/ ˈɛԲə /
noun
- a small pennon, originally one carried by a knight's squire
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pencel1
C13: via Anglo-French from Old French penoncel a little pennon
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And thats when the point on his pencel broke and then we got up and went out.
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And eek, the bet from sorwe him to releve, She made him were a pencel of hir sleve.
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In Richard Coeur de Lion we find "Many a pencel of sykelatoun And of sendel of grene and broun," and also pavilions of sendel; and in the Anglo-French ballad of the death of William Earl of Salisbury in St. Lewis's battle on the Nile— "Le Meister du Temple brace les chivaux Et le Count Long-Espée depli les sandaux."
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