banneret

• bannerette (banner only)

Borrowed from French banneret.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbænəɹˈet/

banneret (plural bannerets)

1. A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner
2. A small banner.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3,

     […] 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.

3. (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.

4. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

• (lord): knight banneret

• knight bachelor

bannière +‎ -et, see bannière, English banner.

banneret m (plural bannerets)

1. banneret (nobleman).

• “banneret” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

banneret n

1. definite singular of banner

banneret n

1. definite singular of banner