Meaning of banneret | Babel Free

Definitions

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. A small banner.
3. A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
   historical
4. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

CEFR level