Person who carries a flag, banner or standard in an official capacity.
The soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle.
1A score of armed warriors and the king's standard-bearer led the way.
2The weakened MDC was not therefore the standard-bearer of revolt against Mugabe.
3Six Tories rebelled, among them David Davis, a standard-bearer for the right.
4Among them was the standard-bearer of Baresmanes, who commanded the Persian left.
5Another, named Talero, disputed the question of who should be the standard-bearer.
6The 80s Morrissey was the standard-bearer for everything brave, beautiful and idiosyncratic.
7The mess immediately pitched on him as our standard-bearer, and he accepted.
8Ginsburg, a liberal icon and feminist standard-bearer, died on Friday aged 87.
9His death affected the ministry and churches as when 'a standard-bearer fainteth.'
10The standard-bearer fell, and the white ensign lay in the dust.
11In the nomination of our standard-bearer, the convention builded better than it knew.
12The standard-bearer hesitated: the troops were on the point of taking to flight.
13He is the standard-bearer of a new premillennialist sensibility: the banality of apocalypse.
14But Kim assured Nick that the position of standard-bearer was an important one.
15She reined up before her standard-bearer, and took the standard in her hand.
16His standard-bearer raised his staff, flying the silver swan pennant of House Courcel.
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