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SQUIRE , an abbreviated form of " esquire " (q.v.), originally with the same meaning of an attendant on a knight. In this form, however, the word has developed certain special
England
title , partly as a description of the chief
title of " squire " to be given to small freeholders of the yeoman class, known in Ireland half contemptuously as " squireens." In the United States the title has also survived as applied to justices of the peace, local judges and other dignitaries in country districts and towns. In another sense " squire " has survived in its sense of " attendant," " to squire " being used so early as Chaucer's day as synonymous with " to wait upon." A " squire of dames " is thus a man very attentive to women
company
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