knightlet

English

Etymology

knight +‎ -let

Noun

knightlet (plural knightlets)

  1. A small or petty knight.
    • 1971, Clayton C. Barbeau, Future of the family
      Highborn 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.

Synonyms

Translations
small or petty knight — see knightling
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