Retainer vs Squire - What's the difference?
retainer | squire |
A dependent or follower of someone of rank.
A paid servant, especially one who has been employed for many years.
Any thing or person that retains.
A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
(dentistry): A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(UK, colloquial)
To attend as a squire
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
* 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
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* 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
As nouns the difference between retainer and squire
is that retainer is a dependent or follower of someone of rank while squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.As a verb squire is
to attend as a squire.retainer
English
Noun
(en noun)- This lawyer charges a retainer for his work .
See also
* braceAnagrams
* *squire
English
(wikipedia squire)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(squir)- (Chaucer)
- to squire a lady
- (Goldsmith)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) See square.Noun
(en noun)- But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
- do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
- as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
- twelve foot and a half by the squire .
