pennoned
English
Etymology
From pennon + -ed.
Adjective
pennoned (not comparable)
- Bearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.).
- 1842, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete:
- Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep / Their vigil on the green; / One seems to guard, and one to weep, / The dead that lie between; / And both roll out, so full and near, / Their music's mingling waves, / They shake the grass, whose pennoned spear / Leans on the narrow graves.
- 1897, Robert W. Chambers, Lorraine:
- Whenever he saw the schapskas and lances he would be cautious; when these lances were pennoned with black and white, and when the schapskas and schabraques were edged with yellow, he would keep out of the way altogether.
- 1914, Olive T. Dargan, Path Flower and Other Verses:
- From each pennoned pinnacle / Of the cities of the free, / Clasped in time invisible, / Flows the wonder flown to thee; / Thou so swift to throb and start / With the singing earth's new heart!
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 25”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:
- All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands.
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- (obsolete) Having wings.
- Synonym: winged
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Al Aaraaf” in James Hannay (ed.), The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, London" Charles Griffin, 1852, p. 164,
- […] my pennoned spirit leapt aloft,