peerage
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English perage, equivalent to peer + -age. Doublet of parage.
Noun
[edit]peerage (countable and uncountable, plural peerages)
- Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
- The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
- A book listing such people and their families.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]peers as a group
the rank or title of a peer
|
book listing peers and their families
|