Meanings
- not comparableBearing one or more pennons (of a pole, spear, mast, etc.).
All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands.
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 25”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC3 more examples
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.
1842, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, CompleteWhenever 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.
1897, Robert W. Chambers, LorraineFrom 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!
1914, Olive T. Dargan, Path Flower and Other Verses - not comparableobsoleteHaving wings.
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,
Synonyms: winged
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving wings.
Origin
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