esquire
IPA: ˈɛskwaɪr
noun
- (usually US, law) A lawyer.
- A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
- An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
- A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
- (archaic) A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
- (obsolete) A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
- (heraldry, rare) The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms).
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
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Examples of "esquire" in Sentences
- The Esquire article was that apology.
- He was an esquire of the body to the queen.
- Long was Esquire to the Body of Henry VIII.
- Some fraternal groups use the title of Esquire.
- It was named Worst Movie of the Year by Esquire.
- He was fiction editor at Esquire in the seventies.
- Esquire Magazine and the Resignation of Admiral Fallon.
- Another example is the phasing out of the social rank Esquire.
- The prologue was featured in Esquire Magazine in September 2006.
- The original name for the Telecaster was the Broadcaster, not the Esquire.
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