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MAN-AT-ARMS
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Irregular inflected form: men-at-arms
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A heavily armed and mounted soldier in medieval times
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("man-at-arms" is a kind of...):
soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)
Context examples:
In truth, these Apostles of His may have been holy men, but they were of no great account as men-at-arms.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two others, flying together, tore a great gap in the St. Christopher upon the sail, and brushed three of Sir Oliver's men-at-arms from the forecastle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They have come in two great galleys, answered the mayor, with two bank of oars on either side, and great store of engines of war and of men-at-arms.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For every horse you see a belted knight hath herbergage in the town, for, as I learn, the men-at-arms and archers have already gone forward to Dax.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Hold to her, Wat!” said a great black-bearded man-at-arms, whose steel breast-plate glimmered in the dusk.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After him, riding three abreast, were nine men-at-arms, all picked soldiers, who had followed the French wars before, and knew the marches of Picardy as they knew the downs of their native Hampshire.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And I can see men-at-arms in yonder boats which ply betwixt the vessel and the shore. But methinks that we are very welcome here, for already they come forth to meet us.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Against the bailey-walls were rows of frail wooden houses and leaning sheds, which gave shelter to the archers and men-at-arms who formed the garrison.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“A Welsh dagsman, i' faith! C'etait mauvais gout, camarade, and the more so when she had a jolly archer and a lusty man-at-arms to choose from.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Is there an archer here hight Sam Aylward?” asked a gaunt man-at-arms, clanking up to them across the courtyard.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
