ARRIERE-BAN

Definition: ARRIERE-BAN

ARRIERE-BAN

Noun

1. A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Arriere-ban \Ar*riere"-ban`\, noun. [French expression, from Old English arban, heriban, from Old High German. hariban, heriban, German heerbann, the calling together of an army; Old High German. heri an army ban public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into arri[`e]re-ban, though arri[`e]re has no connection with its proper meaning. See Ban, Abandon.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: ARRIERE-BAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-i-n-r-r-r"
	-2 letters: barrener.
	-3 letters: barnier, barrier.
	-4 letters: aerier, arrear, barren, beanie, bearer, briner, earner, nearer, rearer, reearn.
	-5 letters: aerie, airer, anear, areae, arena, bairn, barer, barre, brain, briar, brier, brine, naira, ranee, rarer, rebar, reran.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-i-n-r-r-r"
	+1 letter: trainbearer.
	+2 letters: trainbearers.
	+3 letters: intracerebral.
	+4 letters: craniocerebral.
	+5 letters: arbitrarinesses, intracerebrally, irreparableness.
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