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banneret

noun
/ˈbænəɹɪt/

Etymology

From French banneret, from bannière (“banner”) + -et (“-et, -ette: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to banner + -et.

  1. borrowed from banneret

Definitions

  1. Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men…

    Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.

  2. A small banner.

    • […] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
    • His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear.

  3. A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to…

    A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

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