banneret
English
Alternative forms
- bannerette (banner only)
Etymology
Borrowed from French banneret.
Pronunciation
Noun
banneret (plural bannerets)
- A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner
- A small banner.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3, [1]
- […] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,
- His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear.
- c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3, [1]
- (military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
- 1936, The Periodical (Oxford University Press), volumes 21–22, page 67
- A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […O]ne may regret “Banneret”, which has a flavour and associations, more especially as the leader of a formation in the air went into battle flying a streamer which formed a rallying mark as did the banner of the knight for his vassals.
- 1936, The Periodical (Oxford University Press), volumes 21–22, page 67
- A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Synonyms
- (lord): knight banneret
Translations
nobleman
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small banner
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proposed but not officially adopted rank
civil officer in some Swiss cantons
See also
French
Etymology
bannière + -et, see bannière, English banner.
Noun
banneret m (plural bannerets)
- banneret (nobleman).
Further reading
- “banneret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
banneret n
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
banneret n
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