Squired vs Squires - What's the difference?
squired | squires |
(squire)
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 verbs the difference between squired and squires
is that squired is past tense of squire while squires is third-person singular of squire.As a noun squires is
plural of squire.squired
English
Verb
(head)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 .
