squirehood

Etymology

From squire + -hood.

noun

  1. The rank or state of a squire; squireship.“November 18, 1721, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to the King at Arms I am not yet qualified to keep a greyhound. If this should be the test of squirehood, it will go hard with a great number of my fraternity, as well as myself, who must all be unsquired, because a greyhound will not be allowed to keep us company”