The knight had a blue pennon hanging from the end of his lance.
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Pennon
//ˈpɛnən//
Synonyms for "pennon" (19 found)
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Translations
23 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- вимпел noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Catalan
2 entries- banderola noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- penó noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Dutch
1 entries- wimpel noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
French
1 entries- pennon noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Galician
1 entries- pendón noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
German
2 entries- Lanzenwimpel noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- Wimpel noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Icelandic
2 entries- oddveifa noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- vimpill noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Indonesian
1 entries- panji noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Italian
1 entries- insegna noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Māori
1 entries- matairangi noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Norwegian
2 entries- banner noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- vimpel noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- پیكل noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- پینل noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Polish
1 entries- proporzec noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Russian
2 entries- вы́мпел noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- флажо́к noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Swedish
2 entries- bulsan noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
- vimpel noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Tagalog
1 entries- pindol noun (a thin triangular flag or streamer)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
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:
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Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:
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[…] 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.
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