banneret
/ˈbænəɹɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
noun
A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
noun
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
From French banneret, from bannière (“banner”) + -et (“-et, -ette: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to banner + -et.
Origin
- Source language: French