About The Word Banneret
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Banneret
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What's The Definition Of Banneret?
[n] a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
Synonyms | Synonyms for Banneret: knight banneret | knight of the square flag Related Terms | Find terms related to Banneret: and blue | bachelor | banderole | banner | baronet | Bayard | black flag | blue ensign | bunting | burgee | caballero | cavalier | chevalier | coachwhip | colors | companion | Dannebrog | Don Quixote | ensign | flag | Gawain | gonfalon | gonfanon | guidon | house flag | jack | Jolly Roger | knight | knight bachelor | knight banneret | knight baronet | knight-errant | Lancelot | long pennant | merchant flag | national flag | Old Glory | oriflamme | pennant | pennon | pennoncel | red | red ensign | Ritter | royal standard | Sidney | signal flag | Sir Galahad | standard | Stars and Stripes | Star-Spangled Banner | streamer | swallowtail | tricolor | Union Flag | Union Jack | vexillum | white See Also | knight Banneret In Webster's Dictionary \Ban"ner*et\, n.[OE. baneret, OF. baneret, F. banneret;
properly a dim. of OF. baniere. See {Banner}.]
1. Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field
under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
2. A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an
order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title
or rank.
Note: The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of
battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the
pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate,
thereby making it a banner.
3. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
4. A small banner. --Shak.
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