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squire

[skwahyuhr] / skwaɪər /




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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

Whether Egg had Maekar’s permission to join Dunk’s travels as his squire is left more open ended in the novella itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

IBs horse and squire were in the courtyard, ready to take him back to Castle Bliant, but the two men were having their elevenses before he started.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

We’re obviously very thematically about fathers and sons, knights and squires, and, to a certain extent brothers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

“We have a team of original Medieval Times knights and squires in place, and we look forward to hosting our guests at our already scheduled performances,” Sobol said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2019

The woman defended her choice, claiming her family is descended from a long line of “both squires and senators.”

From Fox News ● Dec. 9, 2018

Their dainty ladies were putting roses and violets in their dishes—baked mangolds still mairg an excellent flavouring for bread-and-butter puddings—-while the squires were showing their weakness for sheep’s-milk cheese.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

“Showcasing the dogs — letting people see a good dog,” says Vickie Venzen of Jarretsville, Maryland, who handled Coco on Monday while daughter Tia Williams squired Sapphire.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2022

The first time we tried to go, Kurant and I punched Edison’s name into a smartphone and allowed ourselves to be squired to the first appropriate-sounding place the ride-hailing app suggested.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 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

During her second year, Ayad ended up squiring around more guests than she had expected.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2016

By the wee hours of Tuesday morning, however, Mr. Qaddafi was squiring journalists around neighborhoods filled with Qaddafi sympathizers, saying the rebels who had rolled into the city had fallen into a trap.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2011

There was a general laugh at what was considered a perfectly fair and not unusual piece of jockeying in the squiring of young damsels.

From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Ralph Connor




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