Lexicographical Neighbors of Pensils
Literary usage of Pensils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation by John Strype (1822)
"ragged staves of silver, and pensils. The eighth-captain CHAP. was, the Earl of
Rutland, with his men: his standard of X11" ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"Beside the barges of every craft or city company, there was a barge made like a
ship, called the bachelors'bark, decked with pensils, and pennons of cloth ..."
3. The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors by Allan Cunningham (1834)
"Having destroyed their splendid abbeys, they possessed, no doubt, in 'those days,
few kirks worthy of hanging either pensils, or honours, or arms in. ..."
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