Definitions
(Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood
Word origin
From Middle English esquier, from Old French escuyer, escuier, properly, a shield-bearer (compare modern French écuyer (“shield-bearer, armor-bearer, squire of a knight, esquire, equerry, rider, horseman”)), from Late Latin scūtārius (“shieldmaker, shield-bearer”), from Latin scūtum (“shield”); probably akin to English hide (“to cover”). The term squire is the result of apheresis. Compare equerry, escutcheon.
Used in a sentence
“I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's justices of the peace.”
“Thre pallets between ij Esquires bast dexter and sinister of the second.”
“Mortimer, Barry of 6, or & az. an inescutcheon arg. on a chief of the first 2 pallets between as many base esquires of the second.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Lawyer title”7 letters
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