pennon

n. 细长三角旗, 小燕尾旗, 枪旗, 鸟翼

发音

其它 /ˈpɛnən/
US /ˈpɛnən/

词形变化

pennons 复数 pennons

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    1863, Christina Rossetti, “A Royal Princess” in Isa Craig (ed.), An Offering to Lancashire, London: Emily Faithfull, p. 3, Vassal counts and princes follow where his pennon goes,

  2. 2.

    A long pointed streamer or flag on a vessel.

    航海 交通

    1631, Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt, London: William Lee, p. 21, … a ship most neatly that was lim’d, In all her sailes with Flags and Pennons trim’d.

    1780, Hannah Cowley, The Maid of Arragon, London: L. Davis et al., Fair Commerce wav’d her pennons in our ports;

  3. 3.

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

    文学 废旧

    1630, Henry Lord, A Display of Two Forraigne Sects in the East Indies, London: Francis Constable, “The Religion of the Persees,” Chapter 4, p. 16, […] 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,

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

pennant waft pinion streamer

上位词 2

flag wing

下位词 3

pennoncel pennoncelle penoncel

整体词 1

bird

词源

Inherited from Middle English penoun, pennon, from Anglo-Norman penun, penoun, from Old French penne (“feather”) + -on (diminutive suffix).

来源：wiktionary