knight bachelor

How to use knight bachelor in a sentence

• Chandos was still a knight-bachelor when he led part of the prince of Wales's army into Spain.

  View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Henry Hallam

• Penn′oncelle, a small flag like a pennon; Penn′oncier, a knight-bachelor.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• Pennon, pen′on, n. a flag, a medieval knight-bachelor's ensign: a long narrow flag: a pinion or wing.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• The esquire ranked immediately below the knight bachelor, and his office was regarded as the apprentice stage of knighthood.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 | Various

• When you direct a letter to a knight bachelor—though it is indeed customary and well-bred to omit altogether the Knt.

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 494. | Various