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pensil

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pen⋅sil

  [pen-suhl]
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–noun
pencel.

pen⋅cel

  [pen-suhl]
–noun
a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
Also, pensil, pennoncel, penoncel.

Origin:
1225–75; ME < AF, syncopated var. of penoncel pennoncel
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pen·cel also pen·sil   (pěn'səl)   
n.  A narrow flag, streamer, or pennon, especially one carried at the top of a lance or spear.

[Middle English, from Old French penoncel, diminutive of penon, pennon; see pennon.]
pen·sil   (pěn'səl)   
n.  Variant of pencel.
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