1syllable
esq.
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Definitions ofesq.
1noun
- A lawyer.
- A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
- An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
- A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
- A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
- A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
1noun
- A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
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