Banneret

//ˈbænəɹɪt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, historical
  2. 2
    a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain. historical

    "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."

  5. 5
    A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

Etymology

From French banneret, from bannière (“banner”) + -et (“-et, -ette: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to banner + -et.

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