What does pensile mean?
Pensile means Hanging down, suspended..
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/ˈpɛnsaɪl/ · adjective
Hanging down, suspended..
However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.
Far aloft, over the Altar of the Fatherland, on their tall crane standards of iron, swing pensile our antique Cassolettes or Pans of Incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes[.]
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Pensile means Hanging down, suspended..
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However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon […] is of no slender antiquity.
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