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† alˈferes Obs.
Also alfierez, -feeres, -ferez, -faras; alfere, -a, -o.
[a. OSp. and Pg. alféres (mod.Sp. alférez) ensign, ad. Arab. al-fāris cavalier or knight, f. faras horse. Often made pl., with sing. alfere -a -o; cf. Fr. alfier, It. alfiere. (In later Sp. and It. also confused with alfir, see alfin, as name of the bishop in chess.)]
An ensign, a standard-bearer.
1591Gerrard Art Warre 166 The Alfieres of everie Regiment. 1595T. Maynard Drake's Voy. (1849) 10 Losinge my Alfierez Davis Pursell. 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 21, I have seene..the Alferes themselves to passe into other ranks to fight, leauing the Ensigne with the Abanderado. 1631B. Jonson New Inn iii. i (N.) Jug here, his alfarez; An able officer. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. xxiii. (1821) 431 With a sealed Letter to the Lord Deputie, by an Alfeeres. Ibid. xxi. 420 Two Captaines, 7 Alferoes. c1640Embl. Parthen. Sodal. 49 (N.) The heliotropium, or sunflower, ‘is the true alferes, bearing up the standard of Flora.’ 1679in Howell State Trials (1816) VII. 347 There are no lieutenants in all the Flanders companies, only Captains and Alfara's. 1708Kersey, Alferes, an Ensign-bearer. |