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pencel

American  
[pen-suhl] / ˈpɛn səl /
Also pennoncel, or pensil

noun

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

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

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

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.

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