pancarte

English

Etymology

From French, from Medieval Latin pancharta. See pan- and carte.

Noun

pancarte (plural pancartes)

1. (obsolete) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     John Bouchet, in the third part of his Annels of Aquitaine, marulleth at an old panchart or record which he had seen.

   • 2014, Kathleen Thompson, The Monks of Tiron, page 71:

     The original plan may have been for nothing more than an extended pancarte to cover the increasing number of donations around the mother house.

   • 2014, Constance Brittain Bouchard, Rewriting Saints and Ancestors, page 21:

     A pancarte was thus not considered to serve the same purpose as a cartulary; rather it was something to be incorporated into one.

   • 2020, Stephen Church, Anglo-Norman Studies XLII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2019, page 53:

     This is the date given at the foot of the shorter Angers document and undoubtedly intended to mark the occasion on which that pancarte was created or completed.

References

• “pancarte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• catnaper, pentacra

French

Noun

pancarte f (plural pancartes)

1. sign, placard (with a message on it, such as might be carried during a protest)

Further reading

• “pancarte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• partance