Definitions for pennon

pennon pen·non

Spelling: [pen-uh n]
IPA: /ˈpɛn ən/

Pennon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in pennon (ennnop).

Definitions for pennon

noun

  1. a distinctive flag in any of various forms, as tapering, triangular, or swallow-tailed, formerly one borne on the lance of a knight.
  2. a pennant.
  3. any flag or banner.
  4. a wing or pinion.

Origin of pennon

1325-75; Middle English penon Middle French, augmentative of Old French pene Latin penna or pinna feather. See pen1

Examples for pennon

A banner or pennon,” said the warder; “methinks he rides like the young Baron.

What is the use of a shield on a wall, or a lance that has a cobweb for a pennon?

Close by the stern stood Black Simon with the pennon of the house of Loring.

The banner of the Cid was green, Miss Adister: or else it's his pennon that was.

The triangular pennon occurs in many of the groups of the Painted Chamber.

He needed his Squire at his side, for his pennon was in the breeze once more.

The Englishman deliberately omits the capture of the pennon.

The pennon is a small, narrow flag, forked or swallow-tailed at its extremity.

Each lance for each man of the three doth its own pennon bear.

“Frenetic to be free,” like the pennon, is in this sense the concentration of its meaning.

Word Value for pennon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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