banneret

• bannerette (banner only)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbænəɹɪt/, /ˌbænəˈɹɛt/

banneret (plural bannerets)

1. (law, historical) Clipping of knight banneret: a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
2. A small banner.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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, chapter 6, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:

     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, volumes 21-22, Oxford University Press, 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.

• knight bachelor

From bannière +‎ -et, see bannière, English banner.

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banneret m (plural bannerets)

1. banneret (nobleman)

• “banneret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

banneret n

1. definite singular of banner

banneret n

1. definite singular of banner