The soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle.
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Examples for "standard-bearer"
Examples for "standard-bearer"
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.
1They were new and beautiful, and the color bearer habitually oiled the pole.
2He unconsciously assumed the attitude of the color bearer in the fight of the preceding day.
3In the battle of Milliken's Bend, a color bearer was seen far in advance of his company.
4A color bearer went down.
5The color bearer, preceded by the first lieutenant and followed by a sergeant of the escort, then goes to obtain the color.
6Tottering among them was the rival color bearer, whom the youth saw had been bitten vitally by the bullets of the last formidable volley.
7Color bearers waved their flags in each other's faces, clinched and fought, hand to hand, like devils.