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Knight of the Bath

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noun

  1. a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.


Etymology

Origin of Knight of the Bath

So called because of the bath new knights took before initiation into the order

Example Sentences

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Richard became a Knight of the Bath and of the Garter.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1771, he was made Knight of the Bath; and in 1795, was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Lavington of Lavington.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

At the close of the war he was made a Knight of the Bath.

From A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle by Lancey, Magdalene de

He was an ambassador, and Knight of the Bath; so was Vandyck.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Squire of a Knight of the Bath at the Crowning of Charles II.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various