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Esquire
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Meaning
Noun
●
In American English & Law:
A lawyer.
●
A
male member
of the
gentry
ranking
below a knight.
●
An
honorific
sometimes
placed
after a man's name.
●
In People:
A
gentleman
who
attends
or
escorts
a
lady
in public.
●
In People:
A
squire
; a
youth
who in the
hopes
of becoming a
knight
attended
upon a
knight
●
In People:
A shield-bearer, but also
applied
to other attendants.
●
In Heraldry:
The lower of the halves into which a
square
is
divided
diagonally
, a
single
gyron
, but
potentially
larger
(extending across the
shield
) or
smaller
(
for example
, on Mortimer's arms).
Verb
●
In People:
To
attend
,
wait on
, escort.
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Origin
esquire
English
escuyer
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
esquiere
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
Sourced from
Etym
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