pennillion
Britishnoun
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So I should have guessed, sir, by your being so p. 211well acquainted with pennillion and histories.
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“Well,” said the damsel, “I believe he does write things which he calls pennillion, but everybody laughs at them.”
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Whereupon he also arose, and offering me his hand, said: “Farewell, master; I shall never forget you: were all the gentlefolks who come here to see the sources like you, we should indeed feel no want in these hills of such a gentleman as is spoken of in the pennillion.”
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In his youth he was much addicted to poetry, and a great many pennillion of his composition, chiefly on his p. 527own thievish exploits, are yet recited by the inhabitants of certain districts of the Shires of Brecon, Carmarthen, and Cardigan.
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At the subsequent meetings the president gives a brief address; the bards follow with poetical addresses; adjudications are made, and prizes and medals with suitable devices are given to the successful competitors for poetical, musical and prose compositions, for the best choral and solo singing, and singing with the harp or “Pennillion singing”2 as it is called, for the best playing on the harp or stringed or wind instruments, as well as occasionally for the best specimens of handicraft and art.
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