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Definition of Pennons
1. pennon [n] - See also: pennon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennons
Literary usage of Pennons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"penne, penon de foie, a lap or lobe of the liver ; pennons d'une ... All unawares
Fluttering his pennons vain plumb down he falls Ten thousand fadom deep. ..."
2. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"great delight to hold such a bough aloft, and watch all tho long, delicate pennons
and streamers fly trembling out on the breeze. Beyond high-water mark all ..."
3. A Universal Biographical Dictionary, Containing the Lives of the Most by Charles N. Baldwin (1833)
"... containing anecdotes of the French uii 'j GRACI AN, Balthazar, a ulsters, from
Mazarin to Colbert, &c. ; be died 'pennons were esteemed ; 1 in 1705. ..."
4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1851)
"trail the guns; 792 corporals and privates bearing the large standards and pennons;
2560 musketeers; 688 buckler-men; 440 waving pennons, striking gongs or ..."
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