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pennage

/ˈpɛn.ɪd͡ʒ/

pennage noun: the confining of animals in pens.

Noun (1)

pennage (countable and uncountable, plural pennages)

  1. The confining of animals in pens.
  2. A fee paid for the accommodation of animals in pens.

Noun (2)

pennage

  1. (obsolete) feathery covering; plumage
    • AND IN THIS REGARD eſpecially, namely for breeding after the ſummer Sunſteed, the Halcyones are of great name and much marked. The very ſeas, and they that ſaile thereupon, know well when they ſit and breed. This very bird ſo notable, is little bigger than a ſparrow: for the more part of her...1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] CHAP. XXXII. Of the Halcyones, or Kings-fiſhers: and the daies good for navigation which they ſhew. Of the Sea-guls and...

Forms of pennage

pluralpennages

Origin of pennage

From pen + -age.

From penna + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”). Perhaps analogous to French pennage, the same Latinate root and suffix elements having both entered at an earlier stage (cf. Middle English penne, -age).

Questions about pennage

What does pennage mean?
Pennage means the confining of animals in pens.
What part of speech is pennage?
Pennage is a noun.
How do you pronounce pennage?
Pennage is pronounced /ˈpɛn.ɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of pennage?
The plural of pennage is pennages.

Words near pennage in the dictionary

  1. pennable
  2. pennaceous
  3. Pennacock
  4. Pennacook
  5. pennae
  6. pennage
  7. pennages
  8. pennal
  9. pennalism
  10. pennals
  11. penname

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