esquire

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A lawyer.
2. isim A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.

   “I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's justices of the peace.”

3. isim An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
4. isim A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
5. isim A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
6. isim A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

   “The office of the esquire consisted of several departments; the esquire for the body, the esquire of the chamber, the esquire of the stable, and the carving esquire; the latter stood in the hall at dinner, carved the different dishes, and distributed them to the guests.”

7. fiil To attend, wait on, escort.
8. isim The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms).

   “Thre pallets between ij Esquires bast dexter and sinister of the second.”