pennage
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
pennage (countable and uncountable, plural pennages)
Etymology 2 edit
From penna + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”). Perhaps analogous to French pennage, the same Latinate root and suffix elements having both entered at an earlier stage (cf. Middle English penne, -age).
Noun edit
pennage
- (obsolete) feathery covering; plumage
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] CHAP. XXXII. Of the Halcyones, or Kings-fiſhers: and the daies good for navigation which they ſhew. Of the Sea-guls and Cormorants.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC, page 287:
- AND IN THIS REGARD eſpecially, namely for breeding after the ſummer Sunſteed, the Halcyones are of great name and much marked. The very ſeas, and they that ſaile thereupon, know well when they ſit and breed. This very bird ſo notable, is little bigger than a ſparrow: for the more part of her pennage, blew, intermingled yet among with white and purple feathers, having a thin ſmall neck and long withall.
Further reading edit
- “pennage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pennage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pennage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “pennage”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 4375, column 1.
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French edit
Etymology edit
From penne + -age, from Latin penna, pinna (“wing, feather”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pennage m (plural pennages)
Further reading edit
- “pennage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.