squierie

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French escuierie, esquierie; equivalent to squier +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌskwiː(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /ˈskwiː(ə)riː(ə)/

Noun

squierie (plural squieries)

1. A group of squires.
   • c. 1375, “Book XX”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎^[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 69, verso, lines 319-320; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:

     And w[ith] a noble cumpany / Off kny[chtis] and off ſquyeꝛy […]

     And with a noble company / Of knights and of squires […]

   • a. 1500, The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (The Tale of Ralph the Collier):

     The King buskit him […] with scant of squyary

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Squires as a social class.

Descendants

• English: squiry

References

• “squierī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Squiry”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IX, Part 1 (Si–St), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 751, column 1.