[Sp.; f. escudo shield: see ESQUIRE.] A shield-bearer; an esquire; hence, an attendant; a lady’s page.
1616. B. Jonson, Devil an Ass (1631), IV. iv. 151 (Webster). De-uile, what property is there most required I’ your conceit, now, in the Escudero?
1863. T. B. Aldrich, Knt. of Aragon, Poems 25. His escuderos rode in front, His cavaliers behind.
