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单词 squirehood
释义

squirehood

English

Etymology

squire + -hood

Noun

squirehood (usually uncountable, plural squirehoods)

  1. The rank or state of a squire; squireship.
    • November 18, 1721, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to the King at Arms
      I am not yet qualified to keep a greyhound. If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity, as well as myself, who must all be unsquired, because a greyhound will not be allowed to keep us company

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for squirehood in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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