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, 33–4. The bearer of a banner, or bannerer as he was called, was in these early times a very important personage.
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.
