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Lordly lad capturing the heart of a girl (5)

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I believe the answer is:

laird

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'lordly lad capturing the heart of a girl' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'lad capturing the heart of a girl' is the wordplay.
'capturing' indicates putting letters inside.
'the heart of' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letters of 'girl' are 'ir'.
'lad' placed around 'ir' is 'LAIRD'.

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(Other definitions for laird that I've seen before include "Scottish owner of large estate" , "Estate landowner" , "Scots landowner" , "Scots estate owner" , "rich Scotsman" .)

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