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esquire

esquire (third-person singular simple present esquires, present participle esquiring, simple past and past participle esquired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.

Wikipedia esquire (plural esquires)

1. (archaic) a squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
2. a lawyer
3. (obsolete) a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
   • 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.
4. a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight
5. an honorific sometimes placed after a mans name
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, III-ii - I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the kings justices of the peace.
   • 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 mans 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.
6. A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.

Definizione dizionario esquire

esquire

scudiero

signore

vossignoria

Altri significati:

(obsolete) a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

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

an honorific sometimes placed after a man's name

(transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.

(archaic) a squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight

shield bearer

a lawyer

a squire

A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.

a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight