squire-archy

Updated: June 5, 2025

The Count wore his rustling native dress; but two black cocker spaniels followed at his heels. This combination presented an odd mixture of English squire-archy and the daimyo of feudal Japan. On the crest of the hill above him rose the house, a tall Italianate mansion of grey stucco, softened by creepers, jessamine and climbing roses.

John Paris - Kimono

Now with regard to Harry Richmond, ostensibly it is rather like a chronicle of romantic adventure not formless, far from it, but freely flowing as a saga, with its illegitimate dash of blood-royal and its roaring old English squire-archy and its speaking statue and its quest of the princess; it contains a saga, and even an exceedingly fantastic one.

Percy Lubbock - The Craft of Fiction