squirehood
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
squirehood (usually uncountable, plural squirehoods)
- The rank or state of a squire; squireship.
- November 18, 1721, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to the King at Arms
- I am not yet qualified to keep a greyhound. If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity, as well as myself, who must all be unsquired, because a greyhound will not be allowed to keep us company
- November 18, 1721, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to the King at Arms
References[edit]
- “squirehood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.