[f. as prec. + -ESS1.] A female esquire.
1596. Fosbroke, in J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys, 211. The principall mourneresse apparelled as an Esquieresse.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Praise Clean Linen, Ded. Wks. II. 164. Martha Legge Esquiresse,… Laundresse to the Right worshipfull and generous the Innes of Court.
1864. R. F. Burton, Dahome, II. 79. An esquiress-at-arms, generally a small slave girl, carrying the musket.
