Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soldier, especially a medieval cavalryman supplied with heavy arms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soldier, especially in the middle ages, fully armed and equipped; a heavy-armed soldier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A heavily armed and sometimes mounted soldier in medieval times.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
medieval heavilyarmed mounted member of thecavalry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times
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Examples
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They were all the rage in the scifi stories I was raised with and nothing turns me off more than to know that some intrepid soul is going on a Hero's Journey with and elf, a wizard and a swarthy man-at-arms by his side.
I'm not sure how I feel about this rabid1st 2009
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The man-at-arms, trembling with fear, looks at me, and forgets his place so much as to speak to me directly: “For the love of God, what was that all about?”
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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"Eh, Red Sonya!" shouted a man-at-arms, waving his pike.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Echoes Of Valor III - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2008
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“He was trained in weapons as every man of his station was, of course, but his purpose in the castle was not to be a man-at-arms.”
The World Above Cameron Dokey 2010
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“He was trained in weapons as every man of his station was, of course, but his purpose in the castle was not to be a man-at-arms.”
The World Above Cameron Dokey 2010
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She was just a country girl, but she dressed as a man-at-arms, she had a banner embroidered with lilies and angels.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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"Eh, Red Sonya!" shouted a man-at-arms, waving his pike.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Echoes Of Valor - Echoes Of Valor III Blue Tyson 2008
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The man-at-arms stands, almost at attention, at a distance from me, torn between his duty to guard me and his own fear, and the two of us wait in the eerie half darkness, to see what—if anything—will happen next.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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"Eh, Red Sonya!" shouted a man-at-arms, waving his pike.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Best Of Robert E. Howard Volume 2 Grim Lands - Robert E. Howard Blue Tyson 2008
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A woman comes running out of the house, a man-at-arms behind her.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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