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pencel

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[ pen-suhl ]

noun

  1. a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.


pencel

/ ˈɛԲə /

noun

  1. a small pennon, originally one carried by a knight's squire
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pencel1

1225–75; Middle English < Anglo-French, syncopated variant of penoncel pennoncel
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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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Example Sentences

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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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