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  • proper noun a section of the British Houses of Parliament, the House of Lords, the House of Peers.
  • proper noun A male given name, variant of Piers.
  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

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Examples

  • However profoundly the Honourable Member for Eatanswill might resent it, the issue of expenses and allowances for MPs and Peers is not going to go away.

    Archive 2008-01-20 2008

  • However profoundly the Honourable Member for Eatanswill might resent it, the issue of expenses and allowances for MPs and Peers is not going to go away.

    From The Eatanswill Gazette 2008

  • Peers from a social group that decide to participate in a cooperative download take one of two roles: they are either collectors or helpers (see Figure 1).

    - Boing Boing 2006

  • In addition to English, Archbishop Peers is fluent in French, German and Russian.

    Faith and Citizenship 2004

  • [15] And while they were about this, Cyrus called the Peers together and said to them:

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • Grenier, those nominated by the Peers were the Duke of Vicenza

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • The persons chosen by the Chamber of Representatives were Carnot, Fouche, and Grenier, those nominated by the Peers were the Duke of Vicenza (Caulaincourt) and Baron Quinette.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • The Peers are the natural advisers of the Crown, but the Constitution which has granted them such extraordinary privileges, makes it doubly criminal in them to attack the authority from which it is derived, and to insult the power which it is their peculiar province to uphold and protect.

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Grenier, those nominated by the Peers were the Duke of Vicenza

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • A Jury of Her Peers, which is a history of women writers.

    Of Books and Bicycles 2009

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