Read full poem →That packed his marriage day
With banneret and pennon,
Trumpet and kettledrum,
Dictionary Entry
A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pennonflying pennonpennon ladypennon whitepennon redpennon fluttering
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Poetry examples for “pennon”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →O’er Horncliff Hill a plump of spears,
Beneath a pennon gay;
A horseman, darting from the crowd,
Read full poem →The last and trustiest of the four,
On high his forky pennon bore;
Like swallow’s tail, in shape and hue,
Read full poem →While many a minstrel answered loud,
When Percy's Norman pennon, won
In bloody field, before me shone,
Read full poem →Advanced—forced back—now low, now high,
The pennon sunk and rose;
As bends the barque’s mast in the gale,