pancarte
English
Etymology
From French, from Medieval Latin pancharta. See pan- and carte.
Noun
pancarte (plural pancartes)
- (obsolete) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, OCLC 55195564:
- John Bouchet, in the third part of his Annels of Aquitaine, marulleth at an old panchart or record which he had seen.
- 2014, Kathleen Thompson, The Monks of Tiron, page 71:
- The original plan may have been for nothing more than an extended pancarte to cover the increasing number of donations around the mother house.
- 2014, Constance Brittain Bouchard, Rewriting Saints and Ancestors, page 21:
- A pancarte was thus not considered to serve the same purpose as a cartulary; rather it was something to be incorporated into one.
- 2020, Stephen Church, Anglo-Norman Studies XLII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2019, page 53:
- This is the date given at the foot of the shorter Angers document and undoubtedly intended to mark the occasion on which that pancarte was created or completed.
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References
- pancarte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- catnaper, pentacra
French
Noun
pancarte f (plural pancartes)
- sign, placard (with a message on it, such as might be carried during a protest)
Further reading
- “pancarte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- partance