banneret

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What," exclaimed Gaston, "would I see my Knight Banneret, the youngest Knight in the army, with paltry pennon!

From The Lances of Lynwood by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Of the name of Banneret as it sometimes expressed a Baron of Parlament enough is before said.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Another Carlaverock Banneret, Robert de Scales, whom the chronicler declares to have been both “handsome and amiable” as well as gallant in action, had “six escallops of silver on a red banner.”

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by Utting, R. B.

The Bernese threatened; the Banneret, Peter im Haag, said: "If the document be not produced immediately, we will fetch it in procession."

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

Lady Horsingham and Lady Banneret talked apart on a sofa; they were deep in the merits of their respective preachers and the failings of their respective maids.

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.