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Near the start, when Dunk reluctantly accepts Egg as his squire, he set the terms of their relationship in a dark field outside the town where the tourney that births their legend takes place.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

Martin’s novella series “Tales of Dunk and Egg,” stars Peter Claffey as a wandering knight and Dexter Sol Ansell as his squire, who is secretly a Targaryen prince.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

One such charity case was young Dunk, whom the older knight saved from a thief’s knife before taking on the boy as his squire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

It follows the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall, and his squire, Egg.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

He paused for a second, then added: "You, like all knights in armor, should have a squire to be your helper and companion."

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

The unit will include knights, squires, stable hands and show cast members, including queens, Lord Cedric the lord chancellor, the lord marshal and trumpet players.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

McCurdie said new hires, referred to as squires, are making near minimum wage.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022

There was a similar effort in 2006, where complaints largely centered around a lack of job security and fears that squires were becoming knights too quickly.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

The sort of — low gentry squires, vicar's sons, this sort of thing.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2019

To command the snowy sentinels on die walls, the squires had erected a dozen snowy lords.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

My 14-year-old son recently sent me a photo of our dog, Sugaree, taken last December as she was squired about town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

He came to California in 1926 and squired around silent movie actress Aileen Pringle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

Movie stars James Garner and Steve McQueen also squired her, according to Taylor.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

He and his insular team in the presidency, squired by his attentive communications director Fahrettin Altun, have been rolling out prepared speeches, which he delivers live on national television with the aid of a teleprompter.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

"I am. I was bom on the Doroish Marches, Your Grace. As a boy I squired for a knight of Lord Swann's household."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Treating this kind of team-wide malaise doesn’t necessarily mean culling the entire team, or even squiring off its oldest players with a testimonial and a watch.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2021

So is squiring musician Grimes to the Met Gala.

From The Verge ● May 8, 2021

Riskin had a different set of romantic problems - if squiring Loretta Young and other actresses to nightclubs and turning down Carole Lombard’s marriage proposal could be called problems.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2019

When he trades off speedy spins and jumps with the other male lead, the one responsible for squiring the woman, his ease with tricks can emphasize the other guy’s struggle.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2015

They were O.K., but just a little cautious, and this business of squiring Ansaldo's nurse would not set too well with them unless Ansaldo was not Gamburdo's man at all.

From The Five Arrows by Allan Chase