Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
peerage
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Peerage; also, a lordship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
peerage - noun obsolete A
lordship .
Etymologies
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peer + -dom
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Examples
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That night the world seemed hushed to listen, the peridom of Britain packing the Gallery with rainbow, and the peerdom those benches and cross-benches, red as massacre and the Scarlet Woman, where thronged
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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He seems to have fought well for his peerdom, which means this enthrallment was later, his first relationship was fascination, then sophistication (in the original sense of the word).
Vespertine Erotica 2009
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