Esquire

[ US /ˈɛsˌkwaɪɹ/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛskwa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name
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How To Use Esquire In A Sentence

  • I too had taken a mask and was esquired by Maignan, under whose orders were four Swiss -- whom I had chosen because they spoke no French -- and who had Andrew in charge. In Kings' Byways
  • The ideal-type justice was a local landowner of some substance: peer, esquire, or at least gentleman.
  • Tilney was principally a lawyer, although variously described as magister, clerk, bachelor-of-law, esquire, gentleman, and husbandman.
  • Several rhubord recipes have come in this week, so that the reader who esquired for recipe for rhubard jelly is supplied with this, and recipes for other rhubarb dainties as well. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917
  • Other esquires who held corrodies and the names of their monasteries follow: John Beauchamp, Chaucer's Official Life
  • The abbreviation "Esq." for Esquire is sometimes used; but the two titles Mr. and Esq. should never be used with one name, as "Mr. John Smith, Esq. Business Hints for Men and Women
  • And on the outside of them, about the said "ehariot, rode six other esquires, their hoods on tbdr heads, their horses trapped, each of them bearing a bannerol, not only of the defunct's amis, bat also the arms of such noble houses whereof he was descended, viz. the arms cf Tho - mas, first Earl of Derby of that name. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
  • The best thing that happened to me was a full-page photo in Esquire, showing exactly how I look today. Roger Ebert: 'I'm happy I don't look worse'
  • Adventurebaby I am cool, he's wearing my keks RT @esquireuk: Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Many of the esquires received corrodies -- in most cases probably commuted for a certain yearly sum. Chaucer's Official Life
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