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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On his burly sword-arm, each intrepid champion wore an "armiger," or ribbon of his colour.
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
Then he found his answer, and this time it was John Stirling, armiger, scholar in divinity, who spoke.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Further, the form of grant practically always includes a characterization of the grantee as "dilectus vallettus," "dilectus serviens," "dilectus armiger," etc.
From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert
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
The following nouns in -er are declined like puer: adulter, adulterer; gener, son-in-law; Līber, Bacchus; socer, father-in-law; vesper, evening; and compounds in -fer and -ger, as signifer, armiger.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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