Definition of Pawnce

1. pance [n -S] - See also: pance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawnce

pawled
pawless
pawling
pawls
pawn
pawn off
pawn ticket
pawnable
pawnage
pawnages
pawnbroker
pawnbroker's shop
pawnbrokers
pawnbroking
pawnbrokings
pawnce (current term)
pawnces
pawne
pawned
pawned off
pawnees
pawner
pawners
pawning
pawning off
pawnless
pawnor
pawnors
pawns
pawns off

Literary usage of Pawnce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Spenser called it " pawnce." Shakespeare said maidens called it " love-in-idleness," and ..."

2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... pawnce, the 'pansy', or heart's-ease. Spenser, Shep. Kal., April, 142; Warner, Alb. England, bk. v, c. 28, st. 48; panse, Holland, Pliny, xxi. 10. 92. ..."

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