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Discover LudwigThe word "Esquire" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a title to denote a status of respectability and honor in a person's professional life. You can use it when introducing someone who is a lawyer, or other professional, or to address mail or other correspondence to a lawyer or other professional. For example: "John Smith, Esquire, is an attorney in Smallville, USA." "Please address all correspondence to John Smith, Esquire, at 123 Main Street..."
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Esquire
noun
A lawyer
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He rubbed elbows again with Franklin, Miller, Monk, Cook, Prioress, Shipman, all noisily interacting, and made himself a storyteller, too.Typically for one who was a vintner's son, and who had never quite hauled himself up socially from his first appointment as a meindre, or lesser, esquire, he made no great impression on his fictional company.
Merchants could wear the same clothes as an esquire or knight, but only if they were five times wealthier.
Later "bey" became a general title of respect in Turkish and Arab countries, added after a personal name and equivalent to "esquire" (or "sir" in conversation) in English.
You've reached the law office of James M McGill esquire, a lawyer you can trust.
That's not to say I always get it right, even though, as editor of Esquire magazine, I've been studying the rules for years.
He is also contributing editor at Esquire magazine, GQ Australia and Matter.
Alex Bilmes is editor of Esquire.
To Tibetans he was "Phodo Kusho" (Ford Esquire).
But "Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage", exploring the mess, has just a thin list of examples post-Shakespeare, the likes of This Week Mag, Esquire and one from the New York Times.
He has also become a mentor for other mayors, such as Cory Booker of Newark, who told Esquire magazine: "He's the Obi-Wan Kenobi to all of us young Jedi knights".His charity organisation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, is also making an impact on cities.
(Purely editorial judgment, said Esquire).In this section A new censor?
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