Get Free Checker

man-at-arms

NOUN
  1. a heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times

How To Use man-at-arms In A Sentence

  • Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
  • Halvard, the elderly man-at-arms, shuffled around and cupped his hand to his mouth. NEVERWHERE
  • He was a gentleman-at-arms who attended Henry VIII at The Siege of Boulogne in 1544.
  • Rather like what a man-at-arms goes through in his training. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Endymion, who was not to be a knight, but a gentleman-at-arms in attendance on the Queen of the Tournament, mentioned that Prince Endymion
  • Thus early, after a few questions and some scrutiny, she had sent her in charge of a gentleman-at-arms and a maid of the Duke's Michel and Angele — Complete
  • Aye," said old Diccon, "belike thou goest to some grand castle to live there, and be a page there and what not, and then, haply, a gentleman-at-arms in some great lord's pay. Men of Iron
  • Its Norman characteristic is found in the young _ecuyer_ or squire, of Chaucer, who aspires to equal his father in station and renown; while the English type of the man-at-arms (_l'homme d'armes_) is found in their attendant yeoman, the English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
  • From the ante-chapel behind him came the cry of the faithful subjects who, as the gentleman-at-arms fell back from the doorway, had but just caught a glimpse of her Majesty -- "Long live The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Eh, Red Sonya!" shouted a man-at-arms, waving his pike. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Echoes Of Valor III - Karl Edward Wagner
View all