Pennon

//ˈpɛnən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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:"

  2. 2
    wing of a bird wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    a long flag; often tapering wordnet
  5. 5
    A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing. literary, obsolete

    "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,"

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English penoun, pennon, from Anglo-Norman penun, penoun, from Old French penne (“feather”) + -on (diminutive suffix).

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