apple-squire
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See also: applesquire
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
apple-squire (plural apple-squires)
- (obsolete) A male servant of a prostitute.
- c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- With all my heart, Ile be legitimate and ſilent as an apple-ſquire, Ile ſee nothing, and ſay nothing.