pentise
English
Noun
pentise (plural pentises)
- Alternative form of pentice.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eleuenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 202:
- And ore their heads an iron pentiſe vaſt / They built, by ioyning many a ſhield and targe, [...]