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Word: esquire
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
- a lawyer
- a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight
- an honorific sometimes placed after a man's name
- archaic a squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
- heraldry A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
- obsolete a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
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Verb:
- obsolete To attend, wait on, escort.
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