Pencel

Quick meaning: Pencel is a noun meaning (now historical) A small pennon; a little banner, flag, or streamer.

Meaning

(now historical) A small pennon; a little banner, flag, or streamer.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.
2. (rare, obsolete) A knight carrying a pennon.

Example Sentences

Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells.

[…] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]

The preceding extracts shew that, in some instances, each of the Judas torches was ornamented with three pencels, or little banners, fixed upon as many small spears; […] .

Inside Worcester Cathedral, the coffin was transferred to its hearse, a vast, storeyed, wooden structure, painted black and adorned with heraldic escutcheons, badged pennants or ‘pencels’, silk standards of St George, banners of the royal arms of England and Spain, and of Arthur's various titles, from Wales to Ponthieu in Normandy.

Word Forms

• pencels
• pencell
• pensill

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pensel, pensil, pencell, pensill, pennoncel, pennon.

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