banneret

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — […] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
  3. A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain. historical
    — 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.
  4. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

词形变化

bannerets plural bannerette alternative

词汇关系

相关词
knight bachelor

词源

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