pennoned
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands."
- "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,"
Etymology
From pennon + -ed.