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单词 pennon
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pennonn.

Brit. /ˈpɛnən/, U.S. /ˈpɛnən/
Forms: Middle English penone, Middle English penown, Middle English penowne, Middle English pynon, Middle English pynoun, Middle English pynoune, Middle English pynyoun, Middle English–1500s penoun, Middle English–1800s penon, Middle English– pennon; Scottish pre-1700 pannoun, pre-1700 pannoune, pre-1700 pennone, pre-1700 pennoun, pre-1700 pennown, pre-1700 penon, pre-1700 penown, pre-1700 penowne, pre-1700 pinnon, pre-1700 pinon, pre-1700 pinone, pre-1700 pynoun, pre-1700 1700s– pennon.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French penun, penon, pennon, penoun, pignon.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman penun, penoun, pinun, pignun, pinnon and Middle French penon, pannon, pennon, penoun, pignon,pingnon, peignon, peignoun small flag attached to the head of a lance (c1160 in Old French as penon; c1140 in Anglo-Norman as penun in sense ‘feather of an arrow’; French pennon ) < penne feather, plume, wing (see pen n.3) + -on , diminutive suffix (compare -oon suffix). Compare post-classical Latin pennonus (13th cent.), Old Occitan, Occitan penon (c1150), Catalan péno (13th cent.), Italian pennone (a1266). Compare also Spanish pendón (1207), Portuguese pendão (13th cent.), both with intrusive d , perhaps by association with pender to hang. Compare pendant n. 7a, pennant n.1
1.
a. A long narrow triangular or swallow-tailed flag, usually attached to the head of a lance or a helmet, originally the ensign of a knight under the rank of banneret, and later the military ensign of lancer regiments. Now chiefly historical.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard > pennon
pennonc1380
pennantc1470
society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > pennon
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pennonc1380
pendant1466
pennantc1470
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1555 (MED) As þese frensche men come ryde..Duk Naymes gan be-holde a syde & saw hem & hure penoun.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1650 (MED) Of his contre the signe was Thre fisshes, whiche he scholde bere Upon the penon of a spere.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 721 On her stondardis, richely displaied, Brode baners an many fresche penoun—Ageyn þe wynde þat made a hidous soun.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 238 Sir Pryamus, the good prynce, in the presence of lordys royall to his penowne he rode and lyghtly hit hentys.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 227 Thair speris, thair pennownys, & thar scheldis Of licht Illumynit all the feldis.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 381 (MED) Then syr Robert Vmfreuile with garyson Of Barwike with his countremen, Folowed after the Scottes with his penoun.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 141 A litle Phane or Penon of silke upon a wyre... They must weore this either upon their burgonets, or upon their hats if they will.
1621–2 in L. M. Clopper Rec. Early Eng. Drama: Chester (1979) 338 Euery on hauing his esquire to beare before him his sheild and penon of Armes.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 104 At the end of this Carrere there are men who have several Arrows ready, with little penons hanging at them.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite i, in Fables 5 High on his pointed Lance his Pennon bore His Cretan Fight, the conquer'd Minotaur.
1786 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. I. 205 The pennon was the proper ensign of a bachelor or simple knight. Du Fresne shews that even esquires might bear pennons, provided they could bring a sufficient suite of vassals into the field.
1788 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. II. 258 The pennon was..like a banner, with the addition of a triangular point..; on the performance of any gallant action by the knight and his followers, the pennon was converted into a banner by..cutting off the point, whereby the knight was raised to the degree of a banneret.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 69 The Pennon..was affixed to the end of a lance, from which..it depended, and the charge is always so blazoned, as to appear correctly when the lance is thus held.
1936 ‘C. S. Forester’ General ii. 16 Put on again the glories of blue and gold, schapska and plume, lance pennons and embroidered saddlecloths.
1981 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Apr. 4 The flag of a knight bachelor was a pennon.
1997 J. Rathbone Last Eng. King (1999) p. xiii Small scarlet swallow-tailed pennons fluttered below the polished steel of flanged spear-heads.
b. In extended use: any flag or banner. Also figurative.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag
fanea1000
pennon1404
thane1496
flag1530
rag1698
whiffler1760
flourisher1834
pennant1863
1404–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 605 Item, in 1 uln. de Carde empt. pro Pennons, 7 d.
1466 Inventory in Archaeologia (1887) 50 43 (MED) Item, j pynon of yollowe and blak lynnyn with a lyon and j gote in syluer..Item, j pynon of yollowe sylke with a scripture olde bettyn in syluer.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 253/1 Penon a lytell baner in a felde, pennon.
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia vii. f. 206v Cesar..rolled vp his banners, and hid the penons and antesignes of his souldiers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. v. 49 Barre Harry England, that sweepes through our Land With Penons painted in the blood of Harflew.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. viii. 184 She has spread out that vile pennon or banner of womankind..to allure her votaries to death and headlong ruin.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 234 The soft wind would blow brightly on the pretty pennons of the Kermesse pavilions.
1929 Oxf. Poetry 46 We had all run up our spirits' pennons to the top of our flagposts.
1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) i. 9 The old mossy stones and the flying dark gowns and the ranked pennons in chapel looking for all the world like medieval banners.
c. Heraldry. A pennon (sense 1a) as a device.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of weapons or armour > [noun] > pennon
pennon1586
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 197 The field is Gewles, a banner of three pennons or.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 122/1 He beareth a speare Or, garnished or adorned with a penon or penoncell Argent.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxi. §11. 369 The tent-staff and pennon all or.
1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide Heraldry vi. 110 The pennon was half the size of the guidon and of similar design.
d. A thing resembling or reminiscent of a pennon.
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the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [noun] > tapered object > like a pennon
pennona1630
pennant1878
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. i. 332 Rowles baked like dry Fritters, and sett forth with Penons of Cutt paper, in the forme of Apes, Birdes, and like thinges.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. x. 277 A pillar of dark smoke, which..spread its long dusky pennon through the clear ether.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 227 Little factory villages..with their tall chimneys, and their pennons of black smoke.
1987 R. Wilbur New & Coll. Poems (1988) 7 The leaves go down to defeat..the ash Shaking from blade and pennon May light's citron flash.
2. A knight bachelor. Also: an ensign-bearer. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > position of commander in an order > Knight Bachelor
pennonc1425
Knight Bachelor1609
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > standard-bearer
gonfaneura1250
banneour1297
bannerer1387
standarda1425
banner-bearerc1440
standard-bearerc1453
stander bearerc1475
bannerman?a1500
gonfanonera1500
bannereta1513
pendant bearer1552
ancient-bearer1579
ensign1579
ensign-bearer1579
alferez1581
gonfalonier1586
guidon1591
abanderado1598
ancient1600
porte-guidon1656
vexillary1656
pennona1661
colour sergeant1813
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 1550 (MED) Aiax..sawe..many baner & penoun þat a-bood Amyd þe feld..Þat redy wern attonis to be wroke.
c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 15 (MED) Ser John Chandos..had in his retenu Ml ijc penons armed and x Ml horsmen.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 239 The Duke of Brabant had .xxiiij. Banners and .lxxx Pennons, and in all .vij. thousand men.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Herts. 32 Surely he was a man of merit, being Penon or Ensign-bearer to one, Esquire of the body to three successive Kings, and Mr. of the Horse to one of their Queens.
3. A hanging ornament; = pendant n. 3a. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > pendant
pendantc1400
pendicle1488
drop1502
pennon1546
pendeloque1623
bob1648
pendulea1699
pear drop1785
dropperc1825
tassel-drop1849
hanger-
1546 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 63 Also I give to my dowghter..a girdle with penons and buckle of silver.
4. Nautical. A long pointed streamer or flag on a ship. See pennant n.1 1b.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > pennon > on a ship, etc.
pennoncela1393
pendant1485
pennon1627
broad pendant1716
burgee1848
racing flag1855
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 15 A Ship most neatly that was lim'd In all her Sailes with Flags and Pennons trim'd. [In Chalmers's Poets, pennants, whence in Richardson.]
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Penon,..also a streamer in a ship.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 77 Oh hapless day!..That saw my wandering pennon mount the tide.
1884 R. C. Praed Zéro xiv Yachts with pennons flying lay at anchor in the harbour.
1974 R. A. Caro Power Broker vi. xix. 650 Everywhere there were bright flags—the pennons and burgees of the yachts.
5. poetic. A wing, a pinion. Now rare.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > wing(s) of
wingc1175
shears1590
winglet1611
wicker wingsa1637
pennon1667
van1667
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > wing
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 933 Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops Ten thousand fadom deep. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 441 Birds..rising on stiff Pennons, towre The mid Aereal Skie. View more context for this quotation
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 190 The..Wasp..in the viscous Nectar plung'd, His filmy Pennons struggling flaps in vain.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Ode Departing Year 15 I hear the famin'd brood of prey Flap their lank pennons on the groaning wind!
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab i. 11 Again the coursers of the air Unfurled their azure pennons.
1828 E. Atherstone Fall of Nineveh I. ii. 49 His strengthless pennons fail,—plumb down he falls.
1902 H. Church West Wind p. xiv Ocean's singing Thrills thy pennons' tremulous tips.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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