Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bearer of armor for a knight; a squire.
- noun A person entitled to bear heraldic arms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An armor-bearer to a knight; a squire; the second in rank of the aspirants to chivalry or knighthood.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 The term is now superseded by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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun heraldry A
person entitled to bear acoat of arms . - noun A
squire carrying thearmour of a knight.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a squire carrying the armor of a knight
- noun a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The armiger was a burly redheaded youth who had just turned nineteen, nearly as tall as his formidable master.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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On his burly sword-arm, each intrepid champion wore an "armiger," or ribbon of his colour.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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"armiger" twice; in 50 Edward III, and 1 and 2 Richard II he is called
Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926
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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."
Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926
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And the secondary villain, the rival armiger Hammer, was a hoot.
Iron Guy grrm 2010
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And the secondary villain, the rival armiger Hammer, was a hoot.
A Casting We Will Go grrm 2010
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Merchants cannot become armiger, armigers cannot become noble, and nobles could not aspire to the monarchy.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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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.
Enjoyment 2010
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