banneret

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Upon the pennons of the knights, penoncels of the squires, and banners of the barons and bannerets, the army formed, or, in modern phrase, dressed its line.

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His son and heir, another Sir John, admiral of the king’s navy in the north, was a banneret who displayed his banner in the army that laid siege to Calais.

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While the curtains are spread out all around, several small green and white bannerets stand at the upper and lower end of the sarcophagus.

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So stout a knight was he, that by his prowess he was made a double banneret, and was worth four thousand pounds in land.

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Pan Humyetski, the banneret of Podolia, gave an example himself which roused tears, for he brought stones with his own hands in a wheelbarrow.

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