banneret
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- bannerette (banner only)
Etymology[edit]
From French banneret, from bannière (“banner”) + -et (“-et, -ette: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to banner + -et.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
banneret (plural bannerets)
- (law, historical) Clipping of knight banneret: a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
- A small banner.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- […] 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, chapter 6, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
- His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear.
- (military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
- 1936, The Periodical, volumes 21-22, Oxford University Press, 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.
- A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Translations[edit]
small banner
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proposed but not officially adopted rank
civil officer in some Swiss cantons
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bannière + -et, see bannière, English banner.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
banneret m (plural bannerets)
- banneret (nobleman)
Further reading[edit]
- “banneret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
banneret n
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
banneret n
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