squire
/ˈskwaɪɚ/ noun C2- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- A male attendant on a great personage.
- A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
Plural squires
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The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.
Evidently because he saw something in it which had escaped all those generations of country squires, and from which he expected some personal advantage.
The Reigate Squires
‘But I have seen more than that,’ said he, ‘for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.’ So the drunken squires cursed the shepherd and rode onward.
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