/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · April Squire (An)
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A novus homo, A man who has accumulated money, and has retired into the country, where his money may give him the position of a squire.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.