• Knightlet

    Origin

    en + -knight + let

    Full definition of knightlet

    Noun

    knightlet

    (plural knightlets)
    1. A small or petty knight.
      • 1971, Clayton C. Barbeau, Future of the familyHighborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well.

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