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banneret means: a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command

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banneret

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbænəɹɪt/Part of speech nounSorted abeennrtStarts with BEnds with T0 clues

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a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command

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

“[…] 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.”

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