ARRIERE-BAN


Meaning of ARRIERE-BAN in English

( n. )

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.

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