Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennoncels
Literary usage of Pennoncels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1846)
"... similarly adorned; the effigy of Saint Thomas to be placed in a Streamer for
the ship called " the Cog Thomas;" two pennoncels of white and red sindon, ..."
2. Our Flag: Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States of America by George Henry Preble (1872)
"About 1346, one hundred and sixty pennoncels, with the arms of St. George, were
made for ships. The standards of St. George had sometimes a leopard, /'. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1848)
"... and in some places dropped upon the floor, struggling with accumulated dust
and cob-~ webs, spears, ragged pennoncels, dropping from their hooks, ..."
4. History of the Anglo-Saxons by Francis Palgrave (1876)
"Banners, pennons, and pennoncels are raised ; the troops form into squadrons,
and advance upon the land, which they already claim as their possession. ..."
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