esquireship
(ɪˈskwaɪəʃɪp)
[f. as prec. + -ship.]
The position or dignity of an esquire. The service of an esquire or escort.
| ? 16.. Time's Storehouse (L.), They make the dignitie of esquireship successorie. 1650 B. Discollim. 48 If I be an Esquire, I will sell my Esquireship to any honest man for a good People-ship. 1783 F. Burney Diary II. 282, I most gladly accepted and almost asked his 'squireship. 1843 Fraser's Mag. XXVII. 667 He had attained the envied esquireship, and its further appendage of R.A. |