pencel

American  

[pen-suhl] / ˈpɛn səl /

Also pennoncel, or pensil

noun

1. a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.

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pencel British  

/ ˈpɛnsəl /

noun

1. a small pennon, originally one carried by a knight's squire

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Etymology

Origin of pencel

1225–75; Middle English < Anglo-French, syncopated variant of penoncel pennoncel

Example Sentences

And thats when the point on his pencel broke and then we got up and went out.

From Literature

And eek, the bet from sorwe him to releve, She made him were a pencel of hir sleve.

From Project Gutenberg

In Richard Coeur de Lion we find   "Many a pencel of sykelatoun   And of sendel of grene and broun," and also pavilions of sendel; and in the Anglo-French ballad of the death of William Earl of Salisbury in St. Lewis's battle on the Nile—   "Le Meister du Temple brace les chivaux    Et le Count Long-Espée depli les sandaux."

From Project Gutenberg