| 单词 |
armiger |
| 释义 |
armiger|ˈɑːmɪdʒə(r)| [a. L. armiger bearing arms, an armour-bearer; in med.L. a squire.] An esquire; orig. one who attended a knight to bear his shield, etc.; in later usage, one entitled to bear heraldic arms.
[1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 10 A Gentleman borne..who writes himselfe Armigero.] 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 111 Carew Reynell, armiger. c1840De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. ii. Wks. II. 92 Entitled to proclaim himself an Armiger; which is the newest..mode of saying that one is privileged to bear arms in a sense intelligible only to the Heralds' College. 1869Blackmore Lorna Doone xiii. 74 He..could buy up half the county armigers. |

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