armiger

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"armiger" twice; in 50 Edward III, and 1 and 2 Richard II he is called

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  1. noun A bearer of armor for a knight; a squire.
  2. noun A person entitled to bear heraldic arms.

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  • Some of you may know that my rank of armiger is only symbolic, because of my youth and the rules of chivalry. —  Julian, May - Boreal Moon 01 - Conqueror's Moon
  • The Roman leech and chirurgeon were often slaves; so, too, the preceptor and the pedagogue, the reader and the player, the clerk and the amanuensis, the singer, the dancer, the wrestler, and the buffoon, the architect, the smith, the weaver, and the shoemaker; even the armiger or squire was a slave. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • Hipposideros armiger (_Large Horse-shoe Bat 50 55 speoris (_Indian Horse-shoe Bat 50 56 murinus (_Little Horse-shoe Bat 51 57 cineraceus (_Ashy Horse-shoe Bat 51 58 larvatus 51 59 vulgaris (_Common Malayan Horse-shoe Bat 52 60 Blythii 52 61. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • The armiger, no longer toiling after his knight with heavy helmet and shield, bore his own arms, as he drove along, proudly and pleasantly upon his carriage door. —  The Bed-Book of Happiness
  • As evidence of this confusion we find men called "vallettus" after they have been called "armiger," and sometimes men who are normally called "vallettus camere Regis" named as "vallettus hospicii Regis." —  Chaucer's Official Life
 

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  1. Medieval Latin, from Latin, arms-bearing : arma, arms; see arm2 + gerere, to carry.

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  1. Latin, armor-bearer, from arma, arms, + gerere, bear, carry.
 

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/ˈɑrmɪdʒər/
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