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banneret
/ˈbænəɹɪt/
noun 4
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2BANNERET + NOUN
fourth-ardian, second-ardian, spear, third-ardian
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noun
1
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 group captain.
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.
4
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
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[…] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
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His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear.
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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 regre
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