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GENTLEMAN-AT-ARMS (gentlemen-at-arms)
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Irregular inflected form: gentlemen-at-arms
Dictionary entry overview: What does gentleman-at-arms mean?
• GENTLEMAN-AT-ARMS (noun)
The noun GENTLEMAN-AT-ARMS has 1 sense:
1. one of 40 gentlemen who attend the British sovereign on state occasions
Familiarity information: GENTLEMAN-AT-ARMS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of 40 gentlemen who attend the British sovereign on state occasions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("gentleman-at-arms" is a kind of...):
gentleman (a man of refinement)
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