squire.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
Meaning & usage
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
A term of address to a male equal.
An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin scūtārius (“shield-bearer”), from scūtum (“shield”).
To attend as a squire.
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin scūtārius (“shield-bearer”), from scūtum (“shield”).
A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English squire, borrowed from Middle French esquierre (“rule, carpenter's square”), or from Old French esquire, another form of esquarre (“square”). Cognate with French équerre. Doublet of square.
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