Banneret

Word BANNERET
Character 8
Hyphenation ban ner et
Pronunciations /ˌbænəɹˈet/

Definitions and meanings of "Banneret"

What do we mean by banneret?

A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner

A small banner.

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

A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

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The word "banneret" in example sentences

On the blue field of the banneret was the yellow sun with a black centre, and between the four greater yellow rays, four black rays emerging, so that the sun looked like a wheel spinning with a dazzling motion. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If you neglect it, you might as well go out as an unarmed knight-banneret to fight against men in armor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His armour and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1953)

Selden, indeed, points out that "the old stories" often have _baronetti_ for _bannereti_, and he points out that in France the title had become hereditary; but he himself is careful to say (p. 680) that banneret "hath no relation to this later title." ❋ Various (N/A)

The last authentic instance of the creation of a knight banneret was that of John Smith, created banneret at the battle of Edgehill by Charles I. for rescuing the royal standard from the enemy. ❋ Various (N/A)

William de la Pole rescues Edward III., detained in Flanders by want of money, and is made a knight-banneret; his son Michael is created earl of Suffolk; one of his grandsons is killed at Agincourt; another besieges Orléans, which is delivered by Joan of Arc; he becomes duke of Suffolk, is impeached in 1450 for high treason and beheaded; no honour is lacking to the house. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

The title of knight banneret, with the right to display the private banner, came to be granted for distinguished service in the field. ❋ Various (N/A)

He moreover enjoyed the dignity of castellain and chief bannerer or banneret of London. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

English Catholics, among whom knights harbingers and banneret bearers of the Primrose League are numerous, who have leant all their weight in the scale to maintain the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, have been ever ready when occasion arose to appeal to the religious loyalty of the ❋ Michael F. J. McDonnell (N/A)

There is one other point worthy of remark, touching the office of chief banneret, and that is that on the occasion of any siege undertaken by the London forces, the castellain was to receive as his fee the niggardly sum of one hundred shillings for his trouble, and no more. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The peak of this awful spur was just touched by a fleecy cloud that shifted to and fro like a banneret. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Abbot's Apparitor drew forth his roll and read aloud: -- 'Sir Robert de Shurland, Knight banneret, Baron of Shurland and Minster, and Lord of Sheppey. ❋ Various (N/A)

In 1 Richard II he was a member of the King's council, served later in France with three Knights, 105 esquires and 110 men at arms, and was made a banneret. ❋ James Root Hulbert (1926)

It was probably owing to his great wealth that his son was made a knight-banneret, and his grandson became Earl of Suffolk. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

Gorgeous enamels gleamed here and there from the doors of inlaid cabinets; a wild boar’s head in faience crowned a magnificent side-board, the two steps of which proclaimed the mistress of the house to be the wife or widow of a knight banneret. ❋ Unknown (1917)

A knight banneret of Kent, and Justice of the Peace! ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

And you, Fra Alexo and these cowled fiends that do your evil work, I take you to witness, one and all, that I, Richard Brandon, Knight banneret of Kent, do now, henceforth and for ever, renounce and abjure the oath you wrung from my coward flesh by your devilish tortures. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

They, like us, use a small cross or crucifix, with a long silken banneret attached, for giving the blessings. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And ever on the flanks of the hurrying column flew, like a flag or banneret, Tad's little gray riding-cloak. ❋ Browne, Francis F (1913)

A banneret got higher pay_ about three hundred pounds a year, and was expected to bring at least five attendants. ❋ Unknown (1906)

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