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Definition of Gentleman-at-arms
1. Noun. One of 40 gentlemen who attend the British sovereign on state occasions.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentleman-at-arms
Literary usage of Gentleman-at-arms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Devonshire Characters and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould (1908)
"RICHARD WEEKES, GENTLEMAN AT ARMS AND PRISONER IN THE FLEET IN the parish of
South Tawton, about three miles from the village and church, ..."
2. Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier During the Civil Wars, the by Charles Harding Firth (1902)
"The gentleman-at-arms was '' simply a sort of storekeeper for the regimental ...
In the establishment of 1647 there is one '' gentleman-at-arms'' in every ..."
3. Sketches of her majesty's household: forming a guide to situations in the by Jasper Tomsett Judge (1848)
"The salary of a Gentleman-at-Arms is 1001. per annum. ... The fees paid, on the
sale and transfer of the commission of a Gentleman-at-Arms, are as follow:— ..."
4. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1878)
"Lieutenant-Colonel BFP Brown; Gentleman-at-Arms. Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry
Pocklington; Gentleman-at-Arms. — 9. John Budd Phear; Chief Justice of ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"... and he had on that occasion brought there an equipment of a gentleman-at-
arms, vulgarly called a Beef-eater, of the tune of Queen Elizabeth. ..."
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