pennage
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: pĕnʹĭj, IPA(key): /ˈpɛn.ɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology 1
pen + -age
Noun
pennage (countable and uncountable, plural pennages)
- The confining of animals in pens.
- A fee paid for the accommodation of animals in pens.
Etymology 2
From penna + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”). Perhaps analogous to French pennage, the same Latinate root and suffix elements having both entered at an earlier stage (cf. Middle English penne, -age).
Noun
pennage
- (obsolete) feathery covering; plumage
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] CHAP. XXXII. Of the Halcyones, or Kings-fiſhers: and the daies good for navigation which they ſhew. Of the Sea-guls and Cormorants.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622, page 287:
- AND IN THIS REGARD eſpecially, namely for breeding after the ſummer Sunſteed, the Halcyones are of great name and much marked. The very ſeas, and they that ſaile thereupon, know well when they ſit and breed. This very bird ſo notable, is little bigger than a ſparrow: for the more part of her pennage, blew, intermingled yet among with white and purple feathers, having a thin ſmall neck and long withall.
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Further reading
- pennage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- pennage at OneLook Dictionary Search
- pennage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “pennage”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume IV, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371, page 4375, column 1.
Anagrams
- pangene
French
Etymology
From penne + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛ.naʒ/, /pe.naʒ/
France (Lyon) (file)
Noun
pennage m (plural pennages)
- feathery covering; plumage
Further reading
- “pennage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.