banneret

¹ American  

[ban-er-it, -uh-ret] / ˈbæn ər ɪt, -əˌrɛt /

noun

1. History/Historical.  a knight who could bring a company of followers into the field under his own banner.

2. a rank of knighthood; knight banneret.

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banneret ² American  

[ban-uh-ret] / ˌbæn əˈrɛt /

Or bannerette

noun

1. a small banner.

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banneret British  

/ ˈbænərɪt, -əˌrɛt /

noun

1. Also called: knight banneret.  a knight who was entitled to command other knights and men-at-arms under his own banner

2. a title of knighthood conferred by the king for valour on the battlefield

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Etymology

Origin of banneret¹

1250–1300; Middle English baneret < Old French, equivalent to baner ( e ) banner + -et < Latin -ātus -ate ¹

Origin of banneret¹

1250–1300; Middle English banerett < Middle French banerete little banner. See banner, -ette

Example Sentences

In England that of a duke was seven yards in length, of a banneret four and a half, and of a knight-bachelor four yards.

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His son and heir, another Sir John, admiral of the king’s navy in the north, was a banneret who displayed his banner in the army that laid siege to Calais.

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The snow-white bannerets are dyed with blood of Moorish slain, And chargers rush all masterless across the littered plain.

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While the curtains are spread out all around, several small green and white bannerets stand at the upper and lower end of the sarcophagus.

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So stout a knight was he, that by his prowess he was made a double banneret, and was worth four thousand pounds in land.

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