pennoncel

English

Alternative forms

• pennoncelle
• penoncel

Etymology

From 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^[1], 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.