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UK
/skwˈaɪə/
]
[ US /ˈskwaɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈskwaɪɹ/ ]
NOUN
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
VERB
- attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire
How To Use squire In A Sentence
- The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
- Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
- We haven't verified that it works, and if you want to mess around with your Windows Registry, as it suggests, that's your own affair and nothing to do with us, squire.
- The great house they built may just be ridges in the field to the south-west of the church, but you feel you have met them, Sir Arthur Throckmorton, an Elizabethan squire, and his wife.
- No doubt trying for an audience with Gabriel Androctusa chance to grovel and bootlick his way into squirehood. Virginity
- Several of Woolrich's hunting garments are made of Squires Hightech's Saddle-Cloth, a soft, quiet, stormproof and windproof fabric.
- Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
- Thou too, O Pylades, trusty squire, whose training shows thy father's sterling worth, receive a garland from my hand, for thou no less than he hast a share in this emprise; and so I pray, good luck be thine for ever! Electra
- In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity. A Miscellany of Men
- Mark Fairfield, an outvoter, who, though a Lansmere freeman, had settled in Hazeldean, where he had obtained the situation of head carpenter on the squire's estate. My Novel — Volume 01