pancarte

pancarte noun: a royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

Noun

pancarte (plural pancartes)

(obsolete) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
- John Bouchet, in the third part of his Annels of Aquitaine, marulleth at an old panchart or record which he had seen.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC
- The original plan may have been for nothing more than an extended pancarte to cover the increasing number of donations around the mother house.2014, Kathleen Thompson, The Monks of Tiron, page 71

A pancarte was thus not considered to serve the same purpose as a cartulary; rather it was something to be incorporated into one.2014, Constance Brittain Bouchard, Rewriting Saints and Ancestors, page 21:
This is the date given at the foot of the shorter Angers document and undoubtedly intended to mark the occasion on which that pancarte was created or completed.2020, Stephen Church, Anglo-Norman Studies XLII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2019, page 53:

plural	pancartes

From French, from Medieval Latin pancharta. See pan- and carte.

What does pancarte mean?: Pancarte means a royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
How do you use pancarte in a sentence?: A pancarte was thus not considered to serve the same purpose as a cartulary; rather it was something to be incorporated into one.
What part of speech is pancarte?: Pancarte is a noun.
What is the plural of pancarte?: The plural of pancarte is pancartes.

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