Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chief leader; a generalissimo; a chief king.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A chief war leader, king, or
dictator -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the supreme war chief of the ancient Britons
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| Reply pendragon … …. the ridiculously bright colours?
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Before American Gangster, there was THIS! 2008
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May 29th, 2009 at 2: 06 pm what dog is that? art pendragon Says:
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Cedric (founder of the West Saxons) slew Naud the pendragon, with
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Ygernê had been a widow only three hours, and knew not that the duke was dead (pt.i. 2), and her marriage with the pendragon was not consummated till thirteen days afterwards.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Her father was Uther the pendragon, and her mother Ygerna, widow of Gorloïs.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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= Round Table = (_The_), a table made at Carduel, by Merlin, for Uther, the pendragon.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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His father was Uther the pendragon, and his mother Ygernê (3 _syl_.), widow of Gorloïs duke of Cornwall.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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He would have gratefully given all his patrimonial domains to one who should inform him what pendragon or druid it was who set up the first stone on Salisbury plain.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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Responses to "What are good fantasy books to read for fun?" pendragon, dj machale - ten book series, its amazing, a boy that finds new worlds and must save them from the evil guy, lol, (saint dane), he is called a "traveler" and works together with the few other travelers to win and save the universe aka halla.
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milosrdenstvi commented on the word pendragon
As in Arthur Pendragon; a sort of Early English nobleman.
August 15, 2008