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Definitioner
Substantiv
- a lawyer
- (heraldry) A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
- 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.
Verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
Exempel
- , III-ii - I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's 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 man's 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.
- 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.
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