Pennon

Quick meaning: Pennon is a noun meaning Any banner or flag.

Meaning

Any banner or flag.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of pinion (“a wing”).
2. A heraldic charge in the form of a pennon (sense 1).
3. Synonym of pennant (“a flag or streamer used on a ship”).
4. A Knight Bachelor; also, a soldier who carries an ensign.
5. An ornament that dangles or hangs down.
6. (figurative) Something resembling a pennon (sense 1).
7. (chiefly historical) A long, narrow flag or streamer, often swallowtailed or triangular, usually hung at the top of a helmet or lance, originally the ensign of a knight under the rank of knight banneret, and later of a lancer regiment.

Example Sentences

Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points[…].

High on his pointed lance his Pennon bore / His Cretan Fight, the conquer'd Minotaure: […]

[I]n 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.

He has quarrelled with his neighbours, he has scourged his foes; / Vassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes, / Long-descended valiant lords whom the vulture knows, […]

Word Forms

• pennons

Synonyms for pennon

Depending on context, synonyms include pinion, pennant, waft, streamer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include streamer, pennant, waft, pinion, pennoncel, pencel.

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