armiger
Americannoun
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a person entitled to armorial bearings.
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an armorbearer to a knight; a squire.
noun
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a person entitled to bear heraldic arms, such as a sovereign or nobleman
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a squire carrying the armour of a medieval knight
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Etymology
Origin of armiger
1755–65; < Medieval Latin: squire, Latin: armorbearer (noun), armorbearing (adj.), equivalent to armi- (combining form of arma arm 2 ) + -ger bearing, base of gerere to carry, wear
Example Sentences
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And now behind him every armiger and squire, every spearman and light-foot archer, was hasting Edinburgh-ward, eager to be first to succour the young and headstrong chief of his great house.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
The armiger, no longer toiling after his knight with heavy helmet and shield, bore his own arms, as he drove along, proudly and pleasantly upon his carriage door.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie
On his burly sword-arm, each intrepid champion wore an "armiger," or ribbon of his colour.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
In 44 Edward III our beloved armiger Richard Forester of Stanton was granted custody of the manor of Stokelaty in Hereford which had belonged to Richard Rissholm, deceased.
From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert
As evidence of this confusion we find men called "vallettus" after they have been called "armiger," and sometimes men who are normally called "vallettus camere Regis" named as "vallettus hospicii Regis."
From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert
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