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sword-bearer
n. (alternative spelling of swordbearer English)
Usage examples of "sword-bearer".
But the Saxon was imperious, the Romans were impatient, the festival of the coronation was disturbed by the secret conflict of prerogative and freedom, and Otho commanded his sword-bearer not to stir from his person, lest he should be assaulted and murdered at the foot of the altar.
The sword-bearer was to be provided with a gown of murrey, and a deputation from the civic guilds, to the number of 410 persons, clad in gowns of the same colour, was to join the cavalcade.
Deresh Karany had given them three days to kill the sword-bearers, and two were almost gone.
I howled and one of the sword-bearers started, swung around to eye me.