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Definition esquire

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French escuyer, escuier, properly, a shield-bearer (compare modern French �cuyer (�shield-bearer, armor-bearer, squire of a knight, esquire, equerry, rider, horseman�)), from Late Latin scutarius (�shield-bearer�), from Latin scutum (�shield�); probably akin to English hide (�to cover�). The term squire is the result of apheresis. Compare equerry, escutcheon.

Noun

esquire (plural esquires)

1. A lawyer.
2. A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
3. An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
4. A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
5. (archaic) A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
6. (obsolete) A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

Verb

esquire (third-person singular simple present esquires, present participle esquiring, simple past and past participle esquired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.

Etymology 2

Old French esquiere, esquierre, esquarre (�a square�)

Noun

esquire (plural esquires)

1. (heraldry) A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.

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