squierie
Middle English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French escuierie, esquierie; equivalent to squier + -ie.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsquierie (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)[1], 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):
- The King buskit him […] with scant of squyary
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Squires as a social class.
Descendants
edit- English: squiry
References
edit- “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.