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(obsolete) Alternative form of apple-squire [(obsolete) A male servant of a prostitute.]
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(UK, law, historical) A tenure of lands by knightly service.
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Alternative form of coistril [(obsolete) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries; a coistrel.]
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(obsolete) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries; a coistrel.
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A person in attendance at a royal court.
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Alternative form of coistril [(obsolete) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries; a coistrel.]
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Alternative form of coistril [(obsolete) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries; a coistrel.]
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The conferral of knighthood; investment with a title.
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(Britain) A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.
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A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
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(historical) A medieval mercenary.
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(historical) A high-ranking servant responsible for overseeing the work of other servants.
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(historical) A feudal knight who held a fief in the Holy Roman Empire directly from the Emperor, hence was entitled to representation in the imperial diet.
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Alternative form of king-of-arms [One of the three chief heralds of the College of Arms, designated as Garter (Principal King of Arms), Clarenceux (for England south of the Trent and Wales), and Norroy & Ulster (for England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland).]
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(countable) The domain of a knight
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(dated) A man, especially a French gentleman.
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A valiant knight; any gallant gentleman.
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A squire who is also the local rector.
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One who belongs to the squirearchy.
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A male attendant on a great personage.
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A man who devotes himself to the ladies, from a character in Spenser (Faerie Queene III.7.53)
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(originally Ireland) A minor squire; a small landowner.
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(historical) The wife of a squire.
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(idiomatic) to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)
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(Scotland) Alternative spelling of wadsetter [(Scotland) A person who holds tenure by wadset.]
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