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equerry|ˈɛkwərɪ, ɪˈkwɛrɪ|
Forms: α. 6 esquiry(e, 7 escuirie, 8 escurie. β. 6 equirrie, 7 equerie, 7–9 equery, 7– equerry. γ. aphet. 6–8 query, -rry, quiry, -rry.
[ad. F. écurie, earlier escurie (also escuierie, by erroneous association with escuyer esquire), med.L. scūria stable, f. OHG. scûr shed, shelter (whence sciura, MHG. schiure, mod.G. scheuer barn). The surviving Eng. form is due to an erroneous idea of some connexion with L. equus horse; the accentuation on the first syll., favoured by most Dicts. of the present century, is due to the same cause.]
†1. The stables belonging to a royal or princely household; the body of officers in charge of the stables. Obs.
α1552Huloet, Esquirye, equitium. 1595in Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scotl. (1677) vi. 413 His Majesties house and esquiry and stable. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 84 The keeping of an escuirie or stable of horses.
β1600Gowrie Conspir. in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 190 His hienes being now come downe by the equerie. a1691Boyle Wks. VI. 354 (R.), Sir R. P., that is, (in the ear) Sir Robert Pye of the equerry. 1731in Bailey vol. II. 1800 Coleridge Piccolom. i. ix, There is brought to me from your equerry A splendid..hunting dress.
γ1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1183 He hauing familiar acquaintance in the Quirry. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. i. ii, There's not a groom o' the query could have match'd The jolly riding man. 1719Glossogr. Angl. Nova s.v. Querry, A Gentleman of the Querry.
2. [Short for ‘gentleman of the equerry’, ‘groom of the equerry’; cf. AF. esquire de qurye, OF. escuyer d' escuyrie.]
†a. A groom (obs.).
b. An officer in the service of a royal or other exalted personage, charged with the care of the horses. At the English Court, an officer of the royal household, charged with the duty of occasional attendance on the sovereign.
α1708Chamberlain State Gt. Brit. i. ii. xii. (1743) 100 The constable hath also the power of escuries & pages.
β1591Horsey Trav. (1857) 197 At Yeraslaue another equirrie of the stable mett him. 1679–88Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (1851) 151 In repayring of his house as one of the equerys. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4464/4 One Equery, two Pages of Honour, and the Gentleman Usher in waiting, in Her Majesty's Leading Coach. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 255 Attended..by the Roman emperors..as if they were equerries or grooms of the holy see. 1813Examiner 3 May 280/2 His Royal Highness..left Carlton House..accompanied by Captain Portier, his Equery. 1839tr. Lamartine's Trav. East 41/1 The equerry of Lady Stanhope, who is at the same time her physician. 1865Maffei Brigand Life II. 18 The equerries and militia of the barons.
γ [1526Househ. Ord. 172 The Master of the Horse..to have sitting with him at his table the Esquires de Qurye and the Avenor. ] Ibid. 206 The Master of the Horses doe appoint all such Querries, Officers, and Keepers as, etc.1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. (1641) 61/2 As skilfull Quirry, that commands the Stable Of some great Prince. [1603Florio Montaigne i. ix. (1632) 17 A Gentleman..serving the King in place of one of the Quiers of his Quierie.] 1608Bp. Hall Epist. i. vi, Francesco del Campo (one of the Arch-Dukes Quiryes). 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 165 Mr. Charles Turner..querrie to King James. 1763Mrs. E. Stanley Prince Titi 14 The Querry or Riding-Master..beat down a poor ancient Woman into a very miry Place.
Hence ˈequerryship, the office or position of an equerry.
β1787F. Burney Diary (1842) III. 426 Her husband's Equerryship. 1882Standard 13 Nov. 5/3 Colonel M'Neill has held for the last eight years an Equerryship to the Queen.
γ1611Cotgr., Escuyrie, a Querry ship. 1681Blount Glossogr., Querryship. |