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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French escuierie, esquierie; equivalent to squier + -ie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌskwiː(ə)ˈriː(ə)/, /ˈskwiː(ə)riː(ə)/
Noun
squierie (plural squieries)
- A group of squires.
c. 1375, “Book XX”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 69, verso, lines 319-320; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:And w[ith] a noble cumpany / Off kny[chtis] and off ſquyeꝛy […]- And with a noble company / Of knights and of squires
- a. 1500, The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (The Tale of Ralph the Collier):
- Squires as a social class.
Descendants
References
- “squierī(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Squiry”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 1 (Si–St), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 751, column 1.