Pennoned

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.). not-comparable

    "Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep / Their vigil on the green; / One seems to guard, and one to weep, / The dead that lie between; / And both roll out, so full and near, / Their music's mingling waves, / They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear / Leans on the narrow graves."

  2. 2
    Having wings. not-comparable, obsolete

    "1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Al Aaraaf” in James Hannay (ed.), The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, London" Charles Griffin, 1852, p. 164, […] my pennoned spirit leapt aloft,"

Synonyms

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winged

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"Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep / Their vigil on the green; / One seems to guard, and one to weep, / The dead that lie between; / And both roll out, so full and near, / Their music's mingling waves, / They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear / Leans on the narrow graves."

Etymology

From pennon + -ed.

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