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Liege vs Bannerman - What's the difference?

liege | bannerman |

As nouns the difference between liege and bannerman

is that liege is daybed while bannerman is a person assigned to carry the colours, standards or guidons of a military unit.

liege

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
  • The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
    • a liege lord
  • * Tennyson
    • She looked as grand as doomsday and as grave; / And he, he reverenced his liege lady there.
  • Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal.
    • a liege''' man; a '''liege subject
  • (obsolete, legal) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
    • (Burrill)

    Related terms

    * liege lord * liegeman ----

    bannerman

    English

    (wikipedia bannerman)

    Noun

    (bannermen)
  • A person assigned to carry the colours, standards or guidons of a military unit.
  • A man who belonged to the of the Qing Dynasty.
  • A person of Manchu descent.
  • A samurai in the direct service of the Tokugawa shogunate of feudal Japan, also known as a .