† ˈgenetor, gennitair Obs.
Forms: 4 genatour, 6 geneto(u)r, -ture, gennitair, gennetter.
[OF. geneteur and genetaire, f. genet jennet.]
A soldier who rides a jennet.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2897 Than the genatours of Genne enjoynes att ones. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxxvi. 336, I haue thre thousande barded horses..and I haue also seuen M. genetours. 1525 Ibid. II. li. 179 When Syr John Ferrant saw the geneture, he sayd to a squyer of his, galop forth thy genet, and assaye to speke with yonder geneture. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 257 And Ferdinand with three hundred Lances, two thousand Gennitairs, and sixe thousand footmen. 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 77 Seuen thousand I haue armed head and feet Of genetors full twentie thousand more. 1600 E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 213 In the first ranke whereof marched their Harquebusiers on horsebacke, in the second their gennetters, in the thirde their light horsemen. |