Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coarse woolen stuff or frieze. It was in use in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also peniston, peneston, pennistone, pennystone, and forest whites.

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Examples

  • "She has been fed, -- if not with cates and dainties, then with bread and meat; she has been clothed, -- if not in silk and lace, then in good blue linen and penistone.

    Audrey Mary Johnston 1903

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  • A town in South Yorkshire, England.

    November 16, 2009