squier

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English

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Noun

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squier (plural squiers)

  1. Obsolete form of square.

References

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squier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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Old French escuier, from Latin scutarius (shield-bearer), from scutum (shield)

Noun

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squier (plural squiers)

  1. squire (title for a male person)
    • (c.1400) Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue lines 79 ff.
      With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER,
      A lovyere and a lusty bacheler;
      With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse.
      Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.

Descendants

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  • English: squire