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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