knight marshal
Britishnoun
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The referee, called the knight marshal, issues soccer-style yellow and red cards for rule infractions.
From New York Times
The second duke, twice married, was father of at least eleven sons and six daughters, the sons including Edward the lord high admiral, killed in boarding Pr�gent’s galleys at Brest, Edmund the knight marshal of the army at Flodden, and William the first Lord Howard of Effingham.
From Project Gutenberg
The great Hall at Westminster was already thronged with people at an early hour of the morning, and the servants of the Knight Marshal and the Lord Warden of the Fleet had much ado to keep the crowd back with their tipstaves.
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Great names were whispered, as the servants of the Knight Marshal arranged these in their respective places.
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Knight Marshal had jurisdiction within the precincts of the Court, that is, twelve miles from the lodging of the Sovereign, even on a progress, though not a chase.
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