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pencels

pencels is the plural 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.

Questions about pencels

What is pencels the plural of?
Pencels is the plural of pencel.

Words near pencels in the dictionary

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

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