Precisely in the middle of the quadrangle were placed perpendicularly in the ground, a hundred or more slender, fresh-cut poles, stripped of their bark, and decorated at the end with a floating pennon of white tappa;

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,

Nearly all the Norman spears were embellished with pennons of from two to five points.

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;

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,

Favonius gentle skims along the Grove,
And sheds sweet Odors from his Pennons light.

Pennon

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