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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Banneret \Ban"ner*et\, noun[OE. baneret, OF. baneret, F. banneret; properly a dim. of OF. baniere. See {Banner}.]
1. Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
2. A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
Note: The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate, thereby making it a banner.
3. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
4. A small banner. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
banneret
noun: a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command [syn: {knight banneret}, {knight of the square flag}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "banneret": Bayard, Dannebrog, Don Quixote, Gawain, Jolly Roger, Lancelot, Old Glory, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, and blue, bachelor, banderole, banner, baronet, black flag, blue ensign, bunting, burgee, caballero, cavalier, chevalier, coachwhip, colors, companion, ensign, flag, gonfalon, gonfanon, guidon, house flag, jack, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, long pennant, merchant flag, national flag, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, red, red ensign, royal standard, signal flag, standard, streamer, swallowtail, tricolor, vexillum, white
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