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Banneret

One who leads his vassals to battle under his own banner. A knight made in the field was called a banneret, because the chief ceremony was cutting or tearing off the pointed ends of his banner.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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