esquire

Other forms: esquires

Definitions of esquire
  1. noun
    (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood
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    type of:
    attendant, attender, tender
    someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
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