esquires in English
noun
1
a title appended to a lawyer's surname.
On Octoberber 18, 2003, Martin James, Esq. , a newly qualified attorney, went to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, to visit a client.
2
a young nobleman who, in training for knighthood, acted as an attendant to a knight.
Commoners therefore include knights as well as esquires , gentlemen, serfs, and so on.
noun
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1. They were themselves internally differentiated into knights, esquires and mere gentlemen.
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3. "Under these Bannerets," he adds, "divers knights bachelors and esquires usually served; and according to the number of them, the Bannerets received wages." The last authentic instance of the creation of a knight banneret was that of John Smith, created