BANNERET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banneret mean? 

• BANNERET (noun)
  The noun BANNERET has 1 sense:

1. a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command

  Familiarity information: BANNERET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANNERET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

banneret; knight banneret; knight of the square flag

Hypernyms ("banneret" is a kind of...):

knight (originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit)

 Context examples 

“Mon Dieu! if a man could eat himself into knighthood, Humphrey, you had been a banneret at the least,” observed another, amid a burst of laughter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, could Sir Nigel have shown the bachelles of land which the laws of rank required, he might well have cut his forked pennon into a square banner, and taken such a following into the field as would have supported the dignity of a banneret.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Banneret or bachelor, square pennon or forked, I would not give a denier for the difference, and the less since Sir John Chandos, chosen flower of English chivalry, is himself but a humble knight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)