armour-bearer

British  

noun

1. history a retainer who carried the arms or armour of a warrior

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armour-bearer

This was the place from which Jonathan and his armour-bearer set out, without Saul's knowledge, on their daring, perilous scouting expedition against the Philistines.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Henry Van Dyke

Behind Sir Edmund was an armour-bearer with an arquebus, and an esquire carrying the arms of Ulster, the baronets being the hereditary defenders of the province of Ulster in Ireland.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Opening his eyes, Simon saw, by the red light of a torch, which the armour-bearer of Judas was holding aloft, that Maccabeus was before him.

From Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.

For this reason, if for no other, you may be sure I do not regret having lost the honour of being armour-bearer to the Bishop of Exeter in the Hampden strife.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby

Then he changes the fashion of his countenance, and becomes aged Butes, armour-bearer of old to Dardanian Anchises, and the faithful porter of his threshold; thereafter his lord gave him for Ascanius' attendant.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil