Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A penitent; one doing penance.
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Examples
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Ennis was set up as a one way, with the sidewalks widened and penant shaped streamers through the streets.
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You fought the good fight the penant race is over.
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Nothing like September baseball in a penant chase but I am reminded today how great it is to be a #unionmember
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Nothing like September baseball in a penant chase but I am reminded today how great it is to be a #unionmember
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Back in the Drive of '85, we were poised to win our first penant ever.
stunned 2006
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Something like how i feel every year after the braves lose in the penant race.
i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2001
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These old sea birds did swim in every sea, and lit them up with their pyrotechnics in their two little boats with a fancied broom for penant, despite the prohibitory veto of hostile navies.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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Comp'y with her, and to wait for Us. We took in all Our Small Sails and bore down to her and hoisted Our penant.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Lower Our penant for a Signal for Our pinnace that was then a shoare,
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Yet, instead of injuries, or the heat, it will simply be because they are playing tougher competition. it was focused at the fact that they have been playing AAAA competition and still had around 10+ games ahead with nothing but AAAA teams (i. e; pirates, marlins, astros, etc,) all the while we played teams in the thick of a penant such as the dodgers, A's, blue jays and so forth.
Halos Heaven 2010
Logophile77 commented on the word penant
Homophone is pennant.
December 10, 2017