armour-bearer

British  

noun

1. history a retainer who carried the arms or armour of a warrior

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Example Sentences

The assembly was not yet dismissed when, lo! his armour-bearer proclaimed what had happened.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

Herbert de Norham, one of his followers, and Thomas de Boys, his armour-bearer, swore, that if the report were true, they would not survive their master.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Thomson, Mrs.

E'en so some snowy swan, or timorous hare Jove's armour-bearer, swooping from the sky, Grips in his talons, and aloft doth bear.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Only Mo�ngal, his ancient armour-bearer, and his wife, my foster-mother, are with me; yonder, in that small wooden house, behind the beech mound, we live.

From Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century by Dahn, Felix

The chancel contains a fine altar-monument to the memory of Sir Anthony Browne, armour-bearer to Henry VIII.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell