Definition of "banneret" []

• A small banner. (noun)
• A feudal knight ranking between a knight bachelor and a baron, who was entitled to lead men into battle under his own standard. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "On the blue field of the banneret was the yellow sun with a black centre, and between the four greater yellow rays, four black rays emerging, so that the sun looked like a wheel spinning with a dazzling motion."
• "If you neglect it, you might as well go out as an unarmed knight-banneret to fight against men in armor."
• "His armour and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear."