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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