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pennoned

adj

Etymology

From pennon + -ed.

  1. derived from *peth₂-✻ — “to spread out; to fly (in the sense of spreading out wings)”
  2. derived from penna — “feather (especially a flight feather), pinion; wing”
  3. derived from penon — “flag attached to a lance”
  4. derived from pennon
  5. derived from penun — “feather of an arrow”
  6. inherited from pennon
  7. suffixed as pennoned — “pennon + ed”

Definitions

  1. Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.).

    • 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!

  2. Having wings.

    • 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,

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA