Why this word is great
ARMIGER — [Noun] A person entitled to bear a coat of arms, or historically, an esquire who carried the armor of a knight. From the Latin armiger ("armor-bearer" or "one who carries weapons"), from arma ("arms, armor") + gerere ("to bear, carry"). Unlike "esquire" (which suggests a nobleman's apprentice) or "herald" (which denotes a bureaucratic custodian of lineage), an armiger is either a silent second to a knight or a solitary claimant to ancestral insignia. It is the weight of a shield hoisted for another’s glory, the rustle of a tabard embroidered with ancestral beasts, or the precise brushstrokes of a painter inscribing your family’s crest onto vellum—proof that honor, too, can be carried like a burden or stitched into the fabric of time.