English Dictionary

pennon

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɛnən/

名詞

文語 廃用

A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear. / (nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.

日本語の意味

槍や槍先に吊るされる細く、しばしば三角形の旗や装飾用飾り旗。 / 船舶に取り付けられる、細長く先の尖った飾り旗。

The pennon fluttered at the tip of the lance as the knight charged across the field.

騎士が野を駆け抜けると、槍先につけられた細長い三角旗がひらめいた。

意味（1）

A thin, often triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.

Her yellow lockes crisped, like golden wyre, About her shoulders weren loosely shed, And when the winde emongst them did inspyre, They waued like a penon wyde dispred And low behinde her backe were scattered:

意味（2）

(nautical) A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.

… a ship most neatly that was lim’d, In all her sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d.

意味（3）

(literary, obsolete) A wing (appendage of an animal's body enabling it to fly); any of the outermost primary feathers on a wing.

[…] sodainly there descended before him, as his face was bent towards the earth, an Angell, whose wings had glorious Pennons, and whose face glistered as the beames of the Sunne,

pennons （ plural ）