esquire
n. 先生, 绅士
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释义与例句
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1.
A lawyer.
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2.
A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
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.
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3.
An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
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4.
A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
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5.
A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
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A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
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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).
罕用 政治 纹章Thre pallets between ij Esquires bast dexter and sinister of the second.
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To attend, wait on, escort.
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词汇关系
词源
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.
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