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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An armor-bearer to a knight; a squire; the second in rank of the aspirants to chivalry or knighthood.
  2. n. One who has a right to armorial bearings: formerly used after the proper name by a person possessing such right, but no higher title: thus, “John Bolton, armiger,” is nearly equivalent to “John Bolton, gentleman.” In Shakspere, armigero.

Wiktionary

  1. n. heraldry A person entitled to bear a coat of arms.
  2. n. A squire carrying the armour of a knight.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a squire carrying the armor of a knight
  2. n. a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms

Etymologies

  1. From Latin armiger ("carrying weapons or armour"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin, from Latin, arms-bearing : arma, arms; see arm2 + gerere, to carry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “The armiger was a burly redheaded youth who had just turned nineteen, nearly as tall as his formidable master.”

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  • “On his burly sword-arm, each intrepid champion wore an "armiger," or ribbon of his colour.”

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

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  • “Records, recognize no such classification as "vallettus hospicii Regis," pet the records certainly point to the existence of such a classification.] and later of course, "armiger" or "scutifer.”

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  • “He had known Bolingbroke's dear mother, by corpus bones, and he hoped a little verse from Galfridus Chaucer armiger dilectus might actually be read by the King himself.”

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  • “And the secondary villain, the rival armiger Hammer, was a hoot.”

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  • “Merchants cannot become armiger, armigers cannot become noble, and nobles could not aspire to the monarchy.”

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  • “There with Barton I had stepped back into my oldest role as armiger heir of Mueller; I had spoken like a lord, and now without thinking I mounted a horse so I could travel like one.”

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  • “She did laundry for her master and his armiger, no doubt, and neglected her own.”

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  1. squire
  1. nobleman
  1. noble
  1. lord

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  1. armor-bearer
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  1. augmentation
  1. esquire

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