Maiden vs Esquire - What's the difference?
maiden | esquire |
A girl or an unmarried young woman.
A female virgin.
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A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
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*:As for that said sire Bors I wille be shryuen with a good wylle / Soo syr Bors was confessyd / and for al wymmen sir Bors was a vyrgyne / sauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and sauf for her syre Bors was a clene mayden
A maidservant.
An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
(label) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
:(Wharton)
(label) A maiden over.
(label) A machine for washing linen.
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Virgin.
* Thackeray
Without offspring.
Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
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(cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
* Shakespeare
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Of a fortress, never having been captured or violated.
a lawyer
a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight
* , III-ii - I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's justices of the peace.
* 1875' , 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.
an honorific sometimes placed after a man's name
A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
(archaic) a squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
(obsolete) a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
* 1801:' , ''The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England'' - The office of the '''esquire''' consisted of several departments; the '''esquire''' for the body, the '''esquire''' of the chamber, the '''esquire''' of the stable, and the carving ' esquire ; the latter stood in the hall at dinner, carved the different dishes, and distributed them to the guests.
(obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
(heraldry) A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
As nouns the difference between maiden and esquire
is that maiden is morning while esquire is a lawyer or esquire can be (heraldry) a bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.As a verb esquire is
(obsolete) to attend, wait on, escort.maiden
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* maidenhair * maidenhead * maidenhood * maidenly, maidenliness * maiden flight * maiden voyage * maiden name * maiden of honor * iron maidenSynonyms
* bacheloretteAdjective
(-)- a surprising old maiden lady
- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame?
- The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage .
- After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.
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- maiden flowers
- Full bravely hast thou fleshed / Thy maiden sword.
- (Macaulay)