- knights of the bath
- An order of knighthood which ranked next after the knights bannerets; so called from the ceremony of bathing the knights before their creation. See 1 Bl Comm 403.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
knights of the bath
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