squire

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English esquire, from Old French, from Latin scutarius (“‘shield-bearer’”)

[edit] Noun

squire (plural squires)

1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
3. A male attendant on a great personage.
4. A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
5. A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.

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[edit] Verb

to squire (third-person singular simple present squires, present participle squiring, simple past and past participle squired)

1. To attend as a squire
2. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle French esquierre (“‘rule, carpenter's square’”), from Old French esquarre (“‘square’”) See square.

[edit] Noun

squire (plural squires)

1. (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
   • 1598, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.

   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V, 2, 474.

     do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.

   • 1620, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

     "as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole,"

   • 1628, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, 4, 348.

     twelve foot and a half by the squire.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of eiqrsu
• quires
• risque, risqué