pennoncel

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Middle English penoncel, from Old French penuncel, diminutive of penon (“pennon”). See pennon, pennant.

Noun

pennoncel (plural pennoncels)

  1. (historical) A small pennon (a thin flag or streamer).
    Synonym: pencel
    • 1958, T. H. White, chapter 25, in The Once and Future King‎, New York: Berkeley, pages 423–424:
      Where the raiding parties had once streamed along the highways with fluttering pennoncels, now there were merry bands of pilgrims telling each other dirty stories on the way to Canterbury.
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