pancarte

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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.

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Noun

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pancarte f (plural pancartes)

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

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