Arms-bearer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who carries weapons for another.

    "As for women, only Venus, stripped of her femininity as arms-bearer for Caesar, and the virginal goddess Vesta are present (4.1.46 and 4.1.21)."

  2. 2
    An armed fighter, such as a soldier or knight; one who carries and uses a weapon, as opposed to a member of the support personnel.

    "Lamenting the fact that "scarcely an inch of the page of history has been appropriated" to the memory of the black arms-bearers of the Revolutionary War, Henry Highland Garnet sought to redress the balance in an address before the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1840."

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"As for women, only Venus, stripped of her femininity as arms-bearer for Caesar, and the virginal goddess Vesta are present (4.1.46 and 4.1.21)."

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