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esquire

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Synonyms: enquire, squire, exquire

Antonyms: enquire, squire, exquire

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Noun

  1. A lawyer.
  2. A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
  3. An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
  4. A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
  5. A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
  6. A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

Verb

  1. To attend, wait on, escort.

Noun

  1. 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).

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