Esquire

Noun

 * 1)  a squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
 * 2) a lawyer
 * 3)  a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
 * 4) * 1801: Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England - The office of the esquire consisted of several departments; the esquire for the body, the esquire of the chamber, the esquire of the stable, and the carving esquire; the latter stood in the hall at dinner, carved the different dishes, and distributed them to the guests.
 * 5) a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight
 * 6) an honorific sometimes placed after a man's name
 * , III-ii - I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's justices of the peace.
 * 1) * 1875 Herbert Broom and Edward Hadley, notes by William Wait, Commentaries on the laws of England, I-317 - Esquires and gentlemen are confounded together by Sir Edward Coke, who observes that every esquire is a gentleman, and a gentleman is defined to be one qui arma gerit, who bears coat-armour, the grant of which was thought to add gentility to a man's family.  It is indeed a matter somewhat unsettled what constitutes the distinction, or who is a real esquire; for no estate, however large, per se confers this rank upon its owner.
 * 2) A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.

Derived terms

 * Esquire bedel - See bedel

Verb

 * 1)  To attend, wait on, escort.

Noun

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

Thesaurus
Brahman, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Romeo, amoroso, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, beau, blue blood, bodyguard, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, chaperon, companion, conductor, convoy, count, daimio, duenna, duke, earl, escort, fellow, fellow traveler, flame, gallant, gentleman, gigolo, grand duke, grandee, guard, hidalgo, inamorato, lace-curtain, lady-killer, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, love-maker, magnate, magnifico, man, margrave, marquis, necker, noble, nobleman, old man, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, petter, philanderer, safe-conduct, seducer, seigneur, seignior, sheik, shepherd, silk-stocking, squire, sugar daddy, swain, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, usher, viscount, waldgrave, young man

Etymology 1
escuyer:, escuier:, properly, a shield-bearer, écuyer:, (by apheresis) undefined:,  scutarius:, from  scutum:, akin to Greek skin, hide, from a root meaning to cover; probably akin to English hide to cover. Compare equerry, escutcheon.

Etymology 2
esquiere:, esquierre:, esquarre:

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