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squiresquire /skwaɪə $ skwaɪr/ noun   squireOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French escuier, from Late Latin scutarius, from Latin scutum ‘shield’ - After dinner, the squire and the doctor sat by the captain's side and talked.
- Anglican priests once enjoyed the status of country squires.
- Du Cann's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire.
- Joyce lay dead, shot through the head; and the squire was half-carrying the wounded captain.
- They climbed over the fence like monkeys while the squire and Gray fired at them.
ADJECTIVE► local· John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire. ► young· A window hanging twitched in the manor house, but the only person to reappear in the yard was the young squire.· The young squire among his tenants, I thought. NOUN► country· Du Cann's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire.· Anglican priests once enjoyed the status of country squires. 1[countable] the man who in the past owned most of the land around a country village in England2[countable] a young man in the Middle Ages who learned how to be a knight by serving one3British English old-fashioned spoken used by some men to address a man when they do not know his name |