squire of dames

noun

Etymology

From a character in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (III.7.53).

Definitions

  1. A man who devotes himself to the ladies

    A man who devotes himself to the ladies; a lady's man.

    • Mr. Maynard has suddenly set up for a squire of dames. His romances have got up into his head, and he needs bleeding; so come with me.

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