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In obsolete terms the difference between page and esquire

is that page is a serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education while esquire is a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

As nouns the difference between page and esquire

is that page is one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document while esquire is a lawyer.

As verbs the difference between page and esquire

is that page is to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript while esquire is to attend, wait on, escort.

As a proper noun Page

is {{surname|A=An|English and Scottish occupational|from=occupations}} for someone who was a servant.

page

English

(wikipedia page)

Etymology 1

Via (etyl) from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
  • Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
  • A figurative record or writing; a collective memory.
  • (label) The type set up for printing a page.
  • (label) A web page.
  • (label) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
  • Synonyms
    * (side of a leaf) side * account, record
    Derived terms
    (Terms derived from "page") * on the same page * page in, page out * page-turner *

    Verb

    (pag)
  • To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
  • To turn several pages of a publication.
  • The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
  • To furnish with folios.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), possibly via (etyl) (m), from , in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A serving boy – a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
  • (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
  • (US) A boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
  • (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
  • A boy child.
  • * 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
  • A doghter hadde they bitwixe]] hem two / Of twenty yeer, with-outen any mo, / Savinge a child that was of half-yeer age; / In [[cradle, cradel it lay and was a propre page .
  • A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  • A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  • Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania .
  • Synonyms
    * (serving boy) page boy * (boy child) boy

    Verb

    (pag)
  • To attend (someone) as a page.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • To call or summon (someone).
  • To contact (someone) by means of a pager.
  • I’ll be out all day, so page me if you need me.
  • To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.
  • An SUV parked me in. Could you please page its owner?

    Anagrams

    * (l) 1000 English basic words ----

    esquire

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) escuyer, escuier, properly, a shield-bearer (compare modern (etyl) . The term squire is the result of apheresis. Compare equerry, escutcheon.

    Noun

    (wikipedia esquire) (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Usage notes
    * In England this title is given to the eldest sons of knights, and the elder sons of the younger sons of peers and their eldest sons in succession, officers of the king's courts and of the household, barristers, justices of the peace while in commission, sheriffs, gentlemen who have held commissions in the army and navy, etc.: but opinions with regard to the correct usage vary. There are also esquires of knights of the Bath, each knight appointing three at his installation. The title now is usually conceded to all professional and literary men. In the United States the title is regarded as belonging especially to lawyers. * In legal and other formal documents Esquire is usually written in full after the names of those considered entitled to the designation; in common usage it is abbreviated , and appended to any man's name as a mere mark of respect, as in the addresses of letters (though this practice is becoming less prevalent than formerly). In the general sense, and as a title either alone or prefixed to a name, the form Squire has always been the more common in familiar use. - Century , 1914 * See also the
    Derived terms
    * Esquire bedel - See bedel

    Verb

    (esquir)
  • (obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) esquiere, (esquierre),

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldry) A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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