banneret

English

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

banneret (plural bannerets)

(law, historical) Clipping of knight banneret: a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
A small banner.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
  […] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,
  His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear.
(military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
- 1936, The Periodical (Oxford University Press), volumes 21–22, page 67
  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.
A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

small banner

proposed but not officially adopted rank

civil officer in some Swiss cantons

bannière +‎ -et, see bannière, English banner.

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