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squiress, n.|ˈskwaɪərɛs, skwaɪəˈrɛs|
[f. as prec. + -ess1. Cf. esquiress.]
A female squire; the wife of a squire or country gentleman.
Freq. in 19th c., esp. coupled with squire.
1823T. Moore Fables Holy Alliance 176 The Squires and their Squiresses all, With young Squirinas just come out. 1834Ritchie Wand. Seine 68 An attorney's wife who suddenly finds herself..the squiress and lady of the manor. 1880Burgon Twelve Good Men (1888) II. 35 The squiress who was also the Lady-Bountiful of the village.
So squiress v. intr. (with it), to play the squiress. rare—1.
1786A. Seward Lett. (1811) I. 109 Your old acquaintance,..who married a Warwickshire squire,..squiresses it with much loquacious importance. |