= gonfalonier, n.

In Old French or Anglo-Norman sometimes used in sense of banneret, with feminine baneresse banneret's wife; so in Anglo-Latin banerus; whence…

One who carries a banner, a standard-bearer.

A person (esp. a soldier or officer) who carries a standard, often as a permanent duty; = standard-bearer, n. Obsolete.

standard-bearer, ensign.

An officer or soldier who carries into battle the standard (standard, n. 1) of a military or one of its divisions. Now historical.

= standard-bearer, n. (in various senses).

Scottish. archaic. A standard-bearer, an ensign.

the bearer of a gonfanon.

Confused with bannerer, n. (See banneour, n.)

an ensign.

= 2.

The soldier who carries the ensign; a standard-bearer. See ancient, n.2 Formerly commissioned officers of the lowest grade in the infantry bore this…

One who carried a company's ensign; = ensign, n. 7.

Chiefly in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking contexts: an ensign, a standard-bearer; a second lieutenant. Also occasionally figurative.

The bearer of a gonfalon, a standard-bearer; spec. (a) the title of the chief magistrate (or other official) in several Italian republics; (b) (see…

An officer who carries such a standard.

A standard-bearer.

A standard-bearer, an ‘ensign.’ (The full name was ancient-bearer: see below.)

An ensign-bearer.

A Roman standard-bearer.

A knight bachelor. Also: an ensign-bearer. Obsolete.

A non-commissioned officer in an infantry regiment ranking above a sergeant and below a warrant officer class II, originally having the duty of…