† ˈbannerer Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 4–6 banerer(e, 5–6 banarer, 5 banerrere.
[a. AF. banerer = OF. banerier, f. banière banner.]
1. One who carries a banner, a standard-bearer.
| c 1340 Cursor M. (Trin.) 12723 Ion as banerere of honour Coom þo bifore oure saueour. a 1400 Octouian 1604 Yonge Octouian..Was banerrere of that batayle. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 300/2 One of the Banerers..tooke the Banere and stode amonge them. 1598 Stow Surv. vii. (1603) 63 His heires..are chiefe Banerers of London. 1881 A. MacGeorge Flags 34 The bearer of a banner, or bannerer as he was called. |
| fig. 1387 Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. VII. 93 He þat was i-made cheef banerer of þis doynge deied in þe myddes of þe drynkynge. |
2. = banneret. (
Cf. banneour 2,
banneret 3.)
| 1484 Caxton Chyualry 69 A kniȝt banerere whiche has under hym many knyghtes. |