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单词 penticle
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penticlen.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English pentise , penthouse n., -cle suffix.
Etymology: Apparently irregularly < penti- (in pentise, variant of penthouse n. (see β forms at that entry)) + -cle suffix.Used and perhaps coined by Edward Fairfax (c1575–1635), English poet and translator, perhaps for the sake of the metre.
Obsolete. rare.
= penthouse n. 2b.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed
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1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. lxxiv. 330 Their targets hard aboue their heads they threw, Which ioynd in one an iron pentise make,..For that strong penticle protected well The knights, from all that flew and all that fell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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