From a character in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (III.7.53). squire of dames (uncountable) (archaic) A man who devotes himself to the ladies; a lady's...
Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots. apple-squire squarson squirearchy squire of dames squiress...
grande dame jeu de dames julienne des dames madame Notre Dame → Catalan: dama → Danish: dame → Friulian: dame → Galician: dama → German: Dame → Persian:...
man who attracts women and enjoys their company. Synonym: (archaic) squire of dames 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 42, in White Jacket: This promenading...
wimble wit; 1755, Moses Mendez, “The Squire of Dames” Canto 1, Stanza 27, in Robert Dodsley (editor), A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: R. &...
except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an...
Henry Williamson, Goodbye, West Country, page 212: I feel like an old stag squired by a staggart: but as Windles and the fan get on happily together, all...
diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic...
London: […] M. Cooper, […], page 111: My Dame (who was an utter ſtranger to all that had paſſed between the young Squire and her daughter) was exceeding glad...
which we associate with the troubadours, the gay squires, and sprightly dames, of the early ages of poetry and music. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles...