squire

Synonyymisanakirja

squire

aseenkantaja, avustaja, hoitaja, palvelija, apulainen, maanomistaja, kartanonherra, kavaljeeri, seuralainen.

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kiire, tulipalokiire, joulukiire, lähtökiire, työkiire, oire, tic-oire, iho-oire, ensioire, stressioire...

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Englannin sanakirja

squire (englanti > suomi)

1. aseenkantaja

2. seuralainen, kavaljeeri

3. herra

squire englanniksi

1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.

3. A male attendant on a great personage.

4. A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.

5. (non-gloss definition)

6. puhekieltä (non-gloss definition)

7. 1969, Monty Pythons Flying Circus'', (w)

Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.

8. To attend as a squire.

9. 14th century, (w), (w), “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” lines 303-307,^{https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Prologue_and_Tale}

And yet of our apprentice Ianekyn,

For his crisp heer, shyninge as gold so fyn,

And for he squiereth me bothe up and doun,

Yet hastow caught a fals suspecioun;

I wol hym noght, thogh thou were deed to-morwe.

10. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.

11. 1753, (w), (w), Chapter 48, ^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6761/6761-h/6761-h.htm}

On some occasions, he displayed all his fund of good humour, with a view to beguile her sorrow; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of squiring her to some place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, insisted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, which he knew to be in a most consumptive condition.

12. 1759, (w), “On Dress,” in w:The Bee (magazine)|The Bee, 13 October, 1759,^{https://archive.org/details/worksofolivergol00goldrich}

Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.

13. 1812, w:Henry William Weber|Henry Weber (ed.), The Works of (w), Volume 3, p. 326, footnote 3,^{https://books.google.ca/books?id=jlFQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA326&dq=%22to+squire%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiipNetypTQAhXKhFQKHYpHCIYQ6AEIoQMwQwv=onepage&q=%22to%20squire%22&f=false}

To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire.

14. 1821, (w), w:Kenilworth (novel)|Kenilworth, Chapter 4,^{http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1606/1606-h/1606-h.htm}

Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough to squire a proud dame-citizen to the lecture at Saint Antonlin’s, and quarrel in her cause with any flat-capped threadmaker that would take the wall of her.

15. 1936, (w), w:Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind, Part One, Chapter 1,^{http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161h.html}

And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one’s liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.

16. 1988, (w), (w), New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Six,

A butch entered squiring a blonde whore tottering along on spike heels under dairy whip hair, her chubby hand rising again and again to tuck a stray wisp back into the creamy dome.

17. puhekieltä A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.

18. 1598, (w), (w)

But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.

19. 1598, (w), (w), V, 2, 474.

do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.

20. (RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl)

as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire, or any other toole, ….

21. 1628, (w), (w), IV, 4, 348.

twelve foot and a half by the squire.

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