Definitions for pennons

pennons pen·non

Spelling: [pen-uh n]
IPA: /ˈpɛn ən/

Pennons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in pennons (ennnops).

Definitions for pennons

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 pennons

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

Examples for pennons

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

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

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

The Englishman deliberately omits the capture of the pennon.

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

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

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

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

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 pennons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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