What does pennoned mean?
Pennoned means Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.)..
Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep / Their vigil on the green; / One seems to guard, and one to weep, / The dead that lie between; / And both roll out, so full and near, / Their music's mingling waves, / They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear / Leans on the narrow graves.
Whenever he saw the schapskas and lances he would be cautious; when these lances were pennoned with black and white, and when the schapskas and schabraques were edged with yellow, he would keep out of the way altogether.
From each pennoned pinnacle / Of the cities of the free, / Clasped in time invisible, / Flows the wonder flown to thee; / Thou so swift to throb and start / With the singing earth's new heart!
All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands.
1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Al Aaraaf” in James Hannay (ed.), The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, London" Charles Griffin, 1852, p. 164, […] my pennoned spirit leapt aloft,
Use pennoned when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pennoned means Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.)..
Common synonyms include winged.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep / Their vigil on the green; / One seems to guard, and one to weep, / The dead that lie between; / And both roll out, so full and near, / Their music's mingling waves, / They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear / Leans on the narrow graves.
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