Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word: 'The knight raised his pauldron before mounting.'
The biology student dissected the pauldron of the sea slug.
In the original sentence, pauldron means a piece of plate armour covering the shoulder — a medieval-armour term.
A homonym is a word with the same spelling/pronunciation but a different meaning. The task is to find the option where 'pauldron' is used in a different sense.
(A) Effigy's engraved pauldron — armour sense (same meaning).
(B) The 'pauldron' of a sea slug — used as a biological structural term, distinct from the armour meaning. Different sense — homonym.
(C) A 15th-century Italian pauldron displayed in a museum — armour sense (same meaning).
(D) A blacksmith forging a pauldron — armour sense (same meaning).
Only option B uses 'pauldron' in a meaning other than the armour piece.
Hence, the correct answer is option 2.
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