PENNON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pennon mean? 

• PENNON (noun)
  The noun PENNON has 2 senses:

1. a long flag; often tapering

2. wing of a bird

  Familiarity information: PENNON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENNON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long flag; often tapering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pennant; pennon; streamer; waft

Hypernyms ("pennon" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pennon"):

pennoncel; pennoncelle; penoncel (a small pennant borne on a lance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wing of a bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pennon; pinion

Hypernyms ("pennon" is a kind of...):

wing (a movable organ for flying (one of a pair))

Holonyms ("pennon" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

 Context examples 

The pennon behind me, and the squires round the pennon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my ten finger-bones! if you march behind the pennon of the five roses you are like to see all that a good bowman would wish to see.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is my house where the pennon flies before the door—a small residence to contain the Lord of Montchateau.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Close by the stern stood Black Simon with the pennon of the house of Loring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet it would not be to a knight's honor or good name to lower his pennon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You shall fly your pennon upon the fore part, then, and I upon the poop.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ye have chosen me as a leader, and a leader I will be if ye come with me to Spain; and I vow to you that my pennon of the five roses shall, if God give me strength and life, be ever where there is most honor to be gained.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so, old friend, my heart is hot within me, and I long to hear the old battle-cry again, and, by God's truth! if Sir Nigel unfurls his pennon, here is one who will be right glad to feel the saddle-flaps under his knees.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With white armor, blazoned shield, and plume of ostrich-feathers from his helmet, he carried himself in so jaunty and joyous a fashion, with tossing pennon and curveting charger, that a shout of applause ran the full circle of the arena.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amid a thunder of cheering from cog and from galleys the forked pennon fluttered upon the forecastle, and the galley, sweeping round, came slowly back, as the slaves who rowed it learned the wishes of their new masters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)