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SQUIRE
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Traducere în limba română
squire I. substantiv
1. moşier, proprietar de pământ; boier de la ţară.
2. principalul proprietar de pământ al districtului (care e şi judecător de pace).
6. (amer.) formulă de politeţe folosită mai ales pentru judecătorii de pace.
4. întreţinut.
5. (ist.) scutier.
6. paj.
7. (înv.) cavaler, însoţitor al doamnelor;
squire of dames bărbat curtenitor care stă în compania femeilor;
◊ (înv.) squire of the pad hoţ de drumul mare.
squire II. verb tranzitiv
a însoţi, a întovărăşi (o doamnă).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
To me also your face is known, though mine eyes play such tricks with me that I can scarce be sure of my own squire.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Evidently because he saw something in it which had escaped all those generations of country squires, and from which he expected some personal advantage.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wilt make a squire of squires.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And so Alleyne found himself not only chosen as squire to a knight but also as squire to three damosels, which was even further from the part which he had thought to play in the world.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)