A Spanish or Portuguese term for a person entitled to bear a coat of arms; a noble or genteel person of modest rank.
Spanish and Portuguese form derived from Latin 'armiger,' used in Iberian languages to denote a person of gentle birth with heraldic rights but not necessarily high nobility.
The Spanish 'armigero' became famous through Spanish literature—Cervantes and others used it to describe the shabby gentlemen who maintained noble pretenses but had lost their wealth, like Don Quixote himself.
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