knight banneret
Americannoun
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knights bannerets
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of knight banneret
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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For his good services and his personal bravery at the battle of Edgehill, where he retook the royal standard, he was made a knight banneret by Charles I on the field.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
A knight banneret of Kent, and Justice of the Peace!
From The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol
Therefore each horse archer received an equivalent to 6s. a day, each squire 12s., each knight 24s., and each knight banneret 48s. per day.
From St. George for England by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
At the battle of Edge Hill he retook the standard from the Cromwellians, and for this act of personal valor he was made a knight banneret by the king on the field.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Next follows a knight banneret; who indeed by statutes 5 Ric.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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