Equerry Definition

ĕkwə-rē
equerries
noun
An officer in charge of the horses of a royal or noble household.
Webster's New World
An officer who is a personal attendant on some member of a royal family.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Equerry

Noun

Singular:
equerry
Plural:
equerries

Origin of Equerry

  • From an alteration of earlier esquiry (through the influence of the unrelated Latin equus), from Middle French escuirie, escuerie, derivative of escuyer (“squire”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin scuria (“stable”), from Old High German scura (“barn”). Compare esquire.

    From Wiktionary

  • French écurie stable from Old French escurie from escuier squire squire

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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