Usually means: Warrior figure leading in battle.
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  5. promachos: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (promachos)

noun:  A deity who fights in front of, or champions, some person or state.
noun:  (historical, military) In Ancient Greece and during the Byzantine era, a soldier who fought in the first rank of the phalanx. An obsolete English literal translation of such a promachos is a 'forefighter'.

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