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Quotation dates: 1715
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¶PENSIGNE, n. A pensioner; in the context, hangers-on who were being paid by the Earl of Mar from the funds collected for the Jacobite Rising of 1715.Fif. 1715 J. Sinclair Memoirs (A.C.) 261:
Many gentlemen, who had seen hou treasonable it was to speak their minds, when the Lords, Aid-de-Camps, and pensignes spoke otherwise.
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