squier

== English == === Noun === squier (plural squiers) Obsolete form of square. === References === “squier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Squire, quires, risque, risqué, squire == Middle English == === Etymology === Old French escuier, from Latin scutarius (“shield-bearer”), from scutum (“shield”) === Noun === squier (plural squiers) squire (title for a male person) (c.1400) Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue lines 79 ff. With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER,A lovyere and a lusty bacheler;With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse.Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. ==== Descendants ==== English: squire