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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

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

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

Young squires hurried about on errands as their masters woke, yawning and stretching, to meet the day.

From "A Game of Thrones" 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

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

Guide Jerry Hahn squired us through the ghost town of Rhyolite, past the tailings of gold and lead mines, over bumpy mining roads, and finally into the twisty curves of Titus Canyon.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 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

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

A young man squiring his sweetheart on her afternoon out was the first to come forward.

From Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit




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