squire of dames
English
Noun
squire of dames (uncountable)
- A man who devotes himself to the ladies, from a character in Spenser (Faerie Queene III.7.53)
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, page 238:
- Mr. Maynard has suddenly set up for a squire of dames. His romances have got up into his head, and he needs bleeding; so come with me.