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pencell

pencell is the alternative form of pencel.

Meaning of pencel

Noun

pencel (plural pencels)

  1. (historical) A small pennon; a little banner, flag, or streamer.
    • […] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]1483, Richard III, “(letter to Piers Courteis)”, in Letters of the Kings of England, published 1846, page 153
  2. (obsolete) A lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.
  3. (obsolete, rare) A knight carrying a pennon.

Forms of pencell

pluralpencells

Questions about pencell

What is pencell the alternative form of?
Pencell is the alternative form of pencel.

Words near pencell in the dictionary

  1. pencases
  2. pencatite
  3. pence
  4. pencel
  5. penceless
  6. pencell
  7. pencells
  8. pencels
  9. pencentric
  10. pences
  11. penchant

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