Brewer's: Squire of Dames

Any cavalier who is devoted to ladies. Spenser, in his Faërie Queene (bk. iii. chap. vii.) introduces the “squire,” and records his adventure.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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